Japan is joining the EU to force Apple to allow non-Webcit browsers on iOS. Following the EU’s Digital Markets Act, which was implemented last year, Japan now has a smartphone act.
This will be implemented by December, and will prohibit alternative browser engines from blocking or blocking, effectively requiring that the Apple Pal allows any third-party browser using any rendering engine.
The use of third-party browser engines in Apple should also avoid the practice of using impractical or professionally inevitable. This is designed to avoid situations where Apple Pal will adhere to technically, but it makes it difficult for developers to use engine other than webcits that nothing will change for consumers in effect.
Apple Pal will allow third-party browser engines to allow the access to API as webcit. Apple Pal can make other APIs available, but it may not be physically inferior to the use of safari and webcits. Finally, the smartphone act compulsates the selection screens for browsers, where customers are allowed to choose whatever. Such a selection must be displayed “immediately after the first activation” of the screen device.
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