Apple tried to skirt around EU's DMA by saying Safari isn't a single browser

Apple has tried to argue that there's three different versions of Safari in order to get around the EU's Digital Markets Act. By classifying the iOS, Mac and iPadOS versions of Safari as their own browser rather than a single "Safari", it wouldn't meet the threshold as a "gatekeeper platform". The EU isn't taking the bait however, even going as far as to quote Apple's own marketing material for the Continuity feature where Apple claim "Same Safari. Different device". This means that Apple has to allow non-WebKit-based browsers on iOS/iPadOS sooner or later. I am super keen for it as Mozilla just last week announced that extensions for the Android version of Firefox are coming soon. I want that for Firefox on iOS and allowing non-WebKit browsers is the first step according to Mozilla.


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