According to the Law of the Markets, the Digital (DMA), Apple needs to allow a browser alternative to Safari that use the engine in their appearance. Record has revealed that the company's Cupertino, has introduced a limit on the geography, which requires developers to perform testing only on the equipment, “the european”.
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At the end of January, Apple announced some changes to iOS, introduced in version 17.4), in accordance with the DMA. Both browsers concern, namely, the appearance of your home, to choose, and the probability of use of a motor renderues be different from the WebKit. The same obligations apply to iPadOS.
Such as Google, as well as Mozilla have criticized the long list of requirements set out by Apple, pointing out that it would be very difficult to be provided to the website as an alternative to Safari. Among other things, how it should be managed in two versions, one for Europe and one for the rest of the world (in WebKit).
The register has detected that there is a limit to the other of a hidden (not listed on Apple's site). To test the engine of the production as an alternative, you need a device that is physically present in Europe. The members of the development that they are in the United States, such as Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft, you can only use the emulatorë. In practice, however, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft needs to be in a team, to develop in the in Europe. However, there is no problem in Opera, and Vivaldi, and the two companies of norway.
According to the DIRECTOR of the Work, it's definitely a different movement antikonkurruese. At the end of march, the European Commission opened two investigations against Apple. One of them has to do with the constraints outlined for the selection of the browser.
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