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[–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Unfortunately apple doesn't allow any alteranative browsers on iOS... Everything that behaves as a browser must wrap Safari...

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember when Microsoft was given an anti-trust lawsuit just for bundling IE with Windows?

[–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah... Those were were good times...

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

It's just a skin for Safari essentially, the first few years of them allowing third party browsers they actually gave them a nerfed version of the browser engine too so third party browsers were slower than Safari

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Recently I've heard news that because of a new EU law, Apple will be required to make it possible for the users to install alternative app stores without hacks.
As I know Apple enforces the restriction you have mentioned through their app store, but shipping your browser engine is otherwise probably technically possible.