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Well, to be fair the EU can't force Apple to change outside of its territories, and it makes sense that Apple prefers to maintain the status-quo untill other countries will follow EU example with similar regulations.
I can see Mozilla's point there, but this scenario, even it it's not optimal, still seems me a better one compared to the All-WebKit-Everywhere one. If Mozilla struggles to maintain two versions of Firefox for iOS, I'd say they can drop the useless WebKit version and just maintain the real version for EU only market (untill other markets will follow).
How many people are currently choosing FF in favour of Safari on iOS after all?
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I don't get it though. I mean it should only be as bad as before. It shouldn't be worse now. If maintaining two browsers is too much work, they'll just maintain the WebKit version as before. Browsers aren't forced to use their own engine where they can, right? Even though of course it would be best if they were allowed to use their own engine everywhere. 👍 But the point is it shouldn't be worse now. Only equally shitty. At least for developers. From a goodwill standpoint it should be putting Apple in a worse light for sure. 🫤