Comment by oblio
7 months ago
> As long as people in the US can't test their web app on "firefox for iOS" without first buying a plane ticket to the EU and getting an EU sim card, all eu-only browser engines on iOS will be second-class citizens.
VM is EU. Heck, it can be an ephemeral instance on EC2, so it would only cost money while in use, probably tens of cents or something.
If there's a will, there's a way.
Remote debug on iOS is ass unless you are fully invested into their ecosystem.
And apple has some "nice" licencing nonsense around their software that makes VMs not the "obvious" solution.
Ah, that was silly from me, I forgot about those shenanigans.
I have a bit of experience with cloud mobile simulators (like Appetize). Ignoring the question of whether their simulators have EU builds that allow running alternative browser engines, the experience simply sucks for developing interactive apps.
You can't develop an app if you aren't able to test it like a real user would use it on a real device.
Testing mobile interactions such as scrolling and swiping, as well as animations' performance cannot be done through a VM.
Only real devices allow to test these aspects properly.