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Do you think it would be accurate to say that functionally or effectively bans competing engines by forbidding a major component? I believe Mozilla or Google w
by code_duck 5y ago
Do you think it would be accurate to say that functionally or effectively bans competing engines by forbidding a major component? I believe Mozilla or Google would prioritize including their own engine if it was reasonably possible.
- diamondo25 5y agoYes. But I don't think its allowed to run a virtual machine of any kind in the App Store, which the browser javascript engine is/has been.
- code_duck 5y agoApple is not a slave to or victim of their own policy. I feel like a browser is an important and unique enough piece of software that they could choose to make an exception, but obviously it doesn’t fit their business goals which appear to essentially the same as what Microsoft was thinking with Internet Explorer 6.