Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS

Re:Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS by mikegerwitz on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:07AM (#12660331)

I'm far from one to defend Apple on most things, but is Apple doing anything intentionally malicious here?

In the United States, forcing someone to write code is compelled speech, which is a violation of the First Amendment. I'm not aware of laws in France, but in any case, this seems like a completely wrong approach to solving this problem.

The real problem here is Apple's proprietary platform.

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Re:Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS by fpgeek on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:17AM (#12660392)

I agree that Apple's management of their platform is the underlying problem, but there's no compelled speech here.

Writing code to provide better HTML5 support is only one of the ways Apple could satisfy this complaint. Lifting the developer agreement / Apple App Store restrictions that prevent third-party developers from writing browsers with better HTML5 support is another.

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Re:Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS by mikegerwitz on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:32AM (#12660508)

Ah, I see, thank you for the clarification.

That would indeed be beneficial.

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Re:Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS by vanwalj on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:21AM (#12660417)

I think they just ask for Apple to let developers publish custom web browsers (not based on Apple WebKit) on the App Store, which is currently not allowed by Apple.

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