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For a detailed breakdown of the MSCA and what it means for browser competition:
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The act also forces Apple (and Google) to offer equivalent API access to third-party browser vendors, similar to Article 6(7) of the EU DMA.
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This matters as Apple is still blocking rival browser engines in the 🇪🇺 EU, despite the DMA:
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Actions that "Prevent" the Adoption of Alternative Browser Engines" Such actions may include: imposing unreasonable technical restrictions on individual app providers while allowing them to adopt alternative browser engines, placing excessive financial burdens on individual app providers for adopting alternative browser engines, and steering smartphone users away from using individual software that incorporates alternative browser engines. The determination of whether a designated provider's action constitutes "preventing" the adoption of alternative browser engines does not require that it be completely impossible for individual app providers to adopt alternative browser engines. Instead, the determination is made based on the degree of likelihood that such a result will occur.
Apple will no longer be allowed to impose technical or financial barriers that effectively block third-party browser engines on iOS.
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Japan 🇯🇵 has officially banned Apple’s iOS browser engine restrictions.
Starting Dec 2025, iPhones must allow real Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and others to run their own engines, just like on desktop.
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Pressure to let the web fairly compete on iOS is growing around the world:
brucelawson.co.uk/2025/cma-des...
...but Apple is not on the level. Will be a slog against obfuscation and lies, and we are all lucky to have @open-web-advocacy.org in the fight:
open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-...
Super interesting. Still a long way to go, but looking forward to CSS masonry becoming Baseline.
25.07.2025 13:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Update: We're launching a monthly newsletter!
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23.07.2025 11:49 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0👉If the UK government is serious about supporting business, it must back the CMA in enforcing pro-competition rules decisively, especially when those rules are essential to giving startups and smaller companies a fair shot at innovation and growth.
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Specifically, 58 of 108 content providers we gathered evidence from indicated that web apps are not a viable substitute to the native apps, and a number of these content providers indicated that substitutability is particularly limited in terms of functionality and discoverability, which are important factors for app developers’ distribution choices. Several content providers further submitted that functionality issues with web apps are due to restrictions that Apple has imposed on web browsers within its Mobile Ecosystem. SMS Investigation into Apple’s Mobile Platform - Proposed Decision
Functionality limitations in web apps stem from Apple’s own restrictions on web browsers, undermining their ability to compete with native apps.
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On Apple mobile devices, all mobile browsers are required to use Apple’s WebKit browser engine (ie as a result of the WebKit restriction), as specified in Apple’s App Store Review guidelines. Apple therefore does not face competition from rival mobile browser engines on its Mobile Ecosystem. This position will not change unless Apple lifts its total prohibition on the use of alternative browser engines on its Mobile Ecosystem. SMS Investigation into Apple’s Mobile Platform - Proposed Decision
No Browser Engine Competition on iOS
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The 🇬🇧 UK regulator has provisionally found that Apple and Google meet the threshold for Strategic Market Status (SMS) under the DMCC. In Apple’s case, the decision highlights its ban on competing browser engines and its actions to suppress competition from web apps.
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iOS automatically placing the selected choice screen browser on the dock doubled Firefox' daily active users & further increased DuckDuckGo's app retention by a factor 9.
Why isn't Android required to do the same in the EU?
Agree with @open-web-advocacy.org open-web-advocacy.org/blog/googles...
🚀 OWA volunteer James Heppell shares his experience representing us at the Apple & Google DMA workshop.
His personal take, now #1 on Hacker News, offers sharp insight into gatekeepers' approach to the law.
Check it out:
formularsumo.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
👉 Read all the details here:
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📺 Watch the video
“And for whatever reason, they have chosen not to do so.”
This is simply false.
We asked Apple:
💬The DMA has been in force for 15 months. No browser vendor has ported their engine to iOS. Not because they can’t, but because Apple’s rules make it nearly impossible. Why is Apple insisting vendors lose their existing EU users? (abbreviated)
Apple’s reply?
The DMA has been in force for over 15 months. Not one browser with its own engine has made it to iOS.
Not because they can’t. Because Apple won’t let them.
Apple could solve this today.
They could let browser vendors ship two versions of the same app, one for the EU, one for the rest of the world, under the same bundle ID.
Apple just refuses.
One barrier stands out most of all, Apple won’t let browsers update their current app to use their own engine in the EU.
Instead, they must publish a brand new app and rebuild their user base from scratch
So what’s standing in the way?
🚫 Apple forces browsers to abandon all current EU user
🧪 No way to test EU browser features for global devs
✈️ No clarity on updates for EU users who travel
📄 One-sided legal terms and contracts
This lets Apple control what web apps can do, and stops them from threatening the App Store. No other gatekeeper does this. Only Apple bans competing browser engines.
⚠️Vendors want to ship their REAL browser to iOS, not be forced to produce a separate one with Safari's engine.
Safari brings Apple around $20 billion a year from Google search engine revenue. For every 1% of browser market share it loses, Apple stands to lose $200 million a year.
To protect that revenue, Apple stops competing browsers from offering full-featured alternatives.
Apple at the workshop claimed it didn’t understand why no browser vendor has shipped their engine on iOS but the truth is simple: Apple created the barriers and has refused to remove them.
The reason is money 💰
Kyle Andeer, VP of Apple Legal talking at the Digital Markets Act workshop.
New OWA Report: Apple’s Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
Despite big claims at the recent DMA workshops, Apple continues to block competing browser engines on iOS in the EU.
👉 Read the details 📺 Watch the video
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Peeps! I’m looking for a new role to play. What kind you ask? Well, (clears throat), in the wild, these roles are often called ‘Technical Account Manager’ or ‘Technical Presales’ or ‘Account Manager’. If you stumble upon something like that, tickle me.
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Feel the same. I loved em dashes long before LLMs started loving them more.
07.07.2025 03:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stunningly incredible UI work!
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