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Apple's mobile browser policies and Google pact are 'holding back innovation,' UK regulator says | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Stopthatgirl7 to c/technology

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An inquiry group setup by the U.K.’s antitrust authority has provisionally found that Apple’s policies are “holding back innovation in the browsers we use to access the web on mobile phones.”

While the report focuses substantively on Apple, it also highlighted a revenue-sharing agreement with Google, noting that the duo “earn significant revenue” when Google Chrome is used on iOS, which reduces their “financial incentives to compete.”

The announcement comes in the same week as the Department of Justice (DoJ) in the U.S. said that Google should divest its Chrome browser, after a judge ruled in August that the internet giant was tantamount to an illegal monopoly on online search.

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[–] TheGrandNagus 18 points 3 weeks ago

Good that they're starting to pay attention to this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They seem to be mostly upset about Apple requiring browsers on iOS to use Webkit instead of implementing their own backend. Which is yet another problem the UK wouldn't have if they'd stayed in the EU, where that's already been dealt with under the DMA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

So the UK basically just mimics the EU.

A small win for the British people, I guess, but it would have been way easier to stay. Now they use millions on running trials for this, in a battle already fought in the EU.

Lets see how the UK will deal with the tarrifs proposed by Trump, in a much larger geopolitical battle. They don't have a significant bargain power, if they don't go together with the European countries.