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

Apple is kicked and shoved into doing something slightly less restrictive (in EU) (because only EU has common sense and is not corrupt, apparently)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

nah, they are just slightly less corrupt. And they like to mess with American megacorps too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The antitrust office is actually about the oldest part of the EU, with roots back in the ECSC: They saw the need to get rid of internal collusion to actually entwine the national coal and steel industries. Think of it as a bigger bully saying "We're the cartel bosses around here".

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

What a rollercoaster, I was so excited until the last bit :(

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Wow, amazing news (as an EU citizen). Will definitely check out the “proper” Ff once it’s out

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Damn you, allow this everywhere else too, you pedantic buggers!!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


With iOS 17.4, Apple is making a number of huge changes to the way its mobile operating system works in order to comply with new regulations in the EU.

One of them is an important product shift: for the first time, Apple is going to allow alternative browser engines to run on iOS — but only for users in the EU.

Apple is clearly only doing this because it is required to by the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), which stipulates, among other things, that users should be allowed to uninstall preinstalled apps — including web browsers — that “steer them to the products and services of the gatekeeper.” In this case, iOS is the gatekeeper, and WebKit and Safari are Apple’s products and services.

Even in its release announcing the new features, Apple makes clear that it’s mad about them: “This change is a result of the DMA’s requirements, and means that EU users will be confronted with a list of default browsers before they have the opportunity to understand the options available to them,” the company says.

Apple argues (without any particular merit or evidence) that these other engines are a security and performance risk and that only WebKit is truly optimized and safe for iPhone users.

But in the EU, we’re likely to see these revamped browsers in the App Store as soon as iOS 17.4 drops in March: Google, for one, has been working on a non-WebKit version of Chrome for at least a year.


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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Well, there are separate cooler Japanese versions of some things. Why not this? Only then why Apple at all.

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