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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 months agoApple forces all browsers on their app store to use WebKit, the engine Apple uses. They’re basically Safari with a different skin.
That said, the EU is forcing Apple to allow side loading of apps + app stores next year, and Google and Mozilla have already said they have new iOS browsers in development, so there’s that.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 6 months ago
About EU forcing sideload, is it known how they have to implement? Only new devices? All supported devices?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t know about that, but I imagine it’ll be any recent iPhone.
Apple really won’t want to fuck around or give the courts any room for interpreting them as breaking the rules here because the potential fine is up to 10% of worldwide annual revenue. Going up to 20% for repeat offenses.
Yup, revenue, not profit. Worldwide. Something that Apple/Google/Microsoft/etc are terrified of.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I didn’t know Apple did security updates after feature updates. I really hope my iPad pro first gen gets this, even if it’s the last update it ever gets.