EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech firms

Re:EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, ... by depressedpanda on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @02:56PM (#31992245)

What I see, as a web dev, is that finally Apple will have to keep Safari/iOS up-to-date with Safari/macOS, and that in turn up-to-date with all other browsers. I.e., they will no longer be able to artificially hamstring the web in order to prevent web apps from competing with their App Store.

They certainly have the money to keep pace with Chrome, and I certainly don't want to put up banners saying "works best in [anything but Safari]", which has been the case for many years now.

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Re:EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, ... by MatthiasPortzel on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:19PM (#31996315)

“They certainly have the money to keep pace with Chrome”

This point has been made before. But Chrome is a moving target. I actually am skeptical that Apple can spend more money on WebKit than Google can on Blink.

The way Chrome rose to prominence was by implement brand-new web standards faster than anyone else. If the question is only, “what engine supports the most websites,” I suspect Chrome will increase their development pace in order to try to extend their lead.

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Re:EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, ... by bageljr on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @12:43AM (#31996820)

Isn't that a good thing? Like I'm a full time firefox user but what you're saying is "Google and Apple will fund development of web browsers/engines that support new APIs to outcompete each other"

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Re:EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, ... by theshrike79 on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @02:26AM (#31997446)

Chrome is the new Internet Explorer. They have a ridiculous market share.

It's not about standards, it's about being Chrome-compatible.

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