Where are the iPhone's WebKit-less browsers?
10 months ago
- #DMA Compliance
- #Apple
- #Browser Competition
- Apple continues to impose technical and financial restrictions on non-WebKit browser engines in the EU, despite DMA rulings.
- Developers like Google and Mozilla face hurdles such as insufficient testing tools, hostile legal terms, and the need to create new apps for EU users.
- Mozilla criticizes Apple's restrictions as burdensome and anti-competitive, preventing viable alternatives to Safari.
- Apple's iOS 17.4 added support for non-WebKit browsers to comply with DMA, but OWA claims it's not effective compliance.
- Safari generates $20 billion annually from search revenue, making browser competition a financial threat to Apple.
- UK regulators are also pressuring Apple to allow alternative browser engines outside the EU.