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Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 80 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

you’d usually split like hardware and software, but we have m series chips and macos working so damn well because they collaborated really closely

You don't need to split the OS, it's the App store that needs to be split out, and web browser to be free to choose like in Windows and Android. Microsoft had a judgement on that when they were a monopoly, so they were legally required to offer alternative web browsers equal access on Windows.

[–] accideath@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And yet, Microsoft is trying to push Edge down windows users‘ throat…

It’s not quite as bad as effectively not allowing other browsers but it’s not far behind. Apple is less obnoxious than that on macOS. They won’t beg for you to use Safari

[–] Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If only they'd cut the shit with iMessage

[–] accideath@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

When does Apple beg you use iMessage?

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At least with Edge it's not disrupting the market by pushing an inferior rendering engine, like they did in the IE era. That by itself held the web back a good couple of years, and they were fined for abuse of their monopoly.

But at any rate, all of this is whataboutism - the issue is with Apple's abuse of their position right now.

[–] accideath@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Oh yea, they absolutely do and I’m glad the EU is forcing them to open up. I personally prefer Safari, so I'm mainly looking forward to the sideloading but that didn’t mean that the rest of the world shouldn’t be able to install a real firefox or chrome.

In all honesty, I can understand the browser engine lockdown less than the appstore lockdown. There’s some point to the argument, that sideloading might open the door to viruses, etc. but the browser argument is based on battery life. It’s not 2010 anymore, phones can handle chrome…