TLDR Web Dev · MISCELLANEOUS

APPLE'S BROWSER ENGINE BAN PERSISTS, EVEN UNDER THE DMA

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Despite the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) requiring Apple to allow third-party browser engines on iOS, Apple continues to impose barriers that effectively block competitors like Google and Mozilla from offering their own browser engines to EU users. The main obstacle is Apple's requirement that browser vendors create entirely new apps to use their own engines, forcing them to abandon existing EU users and start from scratch, which makes the investment commercially unviable.