I’m not a fan of this. If the desktop market is anything to go by, this won’t mean huge inroads for Mozilla, it will mean huge inroads for Chromium. Safari on iOS has been the only thing stopping Chrome from become the modern day Internet Explorer, where Google feels they can do whatever they want, because Chrome has a big enough market share to dictate the standard.<p>How did we end up back in this place, and why is it being framed as a success? Opening up iOS in this way would only be a success if it was destroying a monopoly. Instead, this move enables Google’s browser monopoly to grow.
While I don’t think it’s great they don’t allow other browser engines to run on iOS I find this article to be hollow on the details as to how the new guidelines Apple put out are unworkable that it will be insurmountably hard to implement on for the platform. It is scant on these details.<p>I don’t like the verbiage Apple used either but this doesn’t layout what the actual “unworkable” issues are
Even more absurd, alternative browser engines are limited to iOS; iPadOS be damned.<p>What a mess.<p><a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/26/apple-eu-app-ecosystem-tidbits/" rel="nofollow">https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/26/apple-eu-app-ecosystem-...</a>