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Apple is finally allowing Firefox to use its own engine on the iPhone (but only in the EU) (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They didn't have to. The EU regulations have been public for a while now, the only question was how Apple was going to comply.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

True, but I don't think a fund limited organisation like Mozilla is going to spend a lot of money and time on a maybe.

[–] freeman 3 points 7 months ago

Regulations are not "maybe"s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The regulations outright stated that it has to be allowed. So they knew it was going to be allowed on iOS. Like I said, the only question was how: Mozilla didn't know what the mechanisms made by Apple to make this work would look like, but that can be worked out fairly easily later, once they have a working build.