It has been 16 months for a DMA ruler when the developers of the iOS were allowed to use their browser engines in the European Union like Google and Mozilla, where are they? According to the Open Web Advocacy (OWA), a non-profit group of software engineers who advocates for the Open Web-Apple Web Kit continues technical and financial restrictions on alternative iOS browser engines that effectively prevent the competition.
The OAA says these obstacles include inadequate tools of testing outside the United States, complimentary legal terms, and browser developers to force their fully apps to send their engines, which causes developers to lose their current European user base. Google, for example, instead of allowing your existing Chrome browser to update with a blinking engine, Apple’s rules require a new app for EU audiences, and reset the user count to zero. The developers then have to maintain the implementation of two separate browsers.
Mozilla told Stuffy Last year, when Apple was disappointed with sanctions, and calling them “burden” on free browser providers. “Apple’s suggestions fail to give users more and more painful choices by making it more painful to provide competitive alternatives to others for others, said Mozilla spokesman Demiano Demontay. “This is another example of Apple that creates obstacles to prevent the real browser on iOS.”
Apple added assistance for non -web category browsers in iOS 17.4 to persuade DMA rules, which aims to prevent tech giants from stopping third -party browser engines, but the OWA alleges that Apple’s sanctions do not mean “DMA”.
The OEA says, “To ensure other browsers is important for Apple’s best and easiest income series.” The group notes that Safari brings $ 20 billion per search engine revenue from Google, which is 14-16 percent of Apple’s annual operating profit, and that the browser will lose $ 200 million per year for every 1 percent of the market share, which loses safari.
Outside the European Union, Apple also faces pressure from UK regulators to allow developers to use alternative browser engines in the iOS, following an investigation that found that both Apple and Google are “backing” the innovation of mobile browser.
