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by agust 5y ago
If apple was forced to allow competition in browser engines on iOS and wanted to keep some market share for Safari, then they would have to compete fairly with Chrome. So maybe they would start investing some real money in Safari's dev
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by agust 5y ago
Very interesting to see that this concerns app stores as well as web browsers. Web browsers had not been mentioned in most declarations regarding anti-competitive investigations about Apple so far. This is very important because Apple is pr
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UK Competition Authority to scrutinise Apple and Google mobile ecosystems(gov.uk)
1 points by agust 5y ago|0 comments
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by agust 5y ago
Because this is a bit technical and regulators are not aware of it and its tremendous implications. Hopefully the anti-trust investigations in the US, the EU and other parts of the world will change that...
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by agust 5y ago
Sure. Users don't even know it would be possible, and don't care about the tech anyway. What they care about however is how much they pay for apps, how much they pay for in-app purchases, and being able to switch freely from one p
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by agust 5y ago
I really wish this too. Unfortunately, I am not sure the anticompetitiveness of Apple's behaviour regarding web browser engines — and its implication on the entire app industry — has been brought to the attention of EU lawmakers... For
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by agust 6y ago
Well, that would be my problem, as it is when I'm running (the real) Chrome on macOS, Android, Windows or Linux. And if I'm not happy with that, maybe I'll switch to Firefox, which doesn't support them while not holding
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by agust 6y ago
The problem is not that Apple doesn't care enough about the Web. If they don't want to add features to Webkit, that's fine. The problem is that they prevent other browsers to add these features, because they prevent them from
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by agust 6y ago
Something must absolutely be done to allow competing browser engines on iOS, such an anti-competitive behaviour is astonishing. How much money did Apple make thanks to not allowing the Web to be a viable alternative to native apps on its pl
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by agust 6y ago
That is also why they are currently preventing competition on web browser engines on iOS, by forcing other browsers to use theirs (webkit). That way they can limit the web app capabilities, by not implementing APIs like the Push API, and ma