[robert_foss]

By the chosen people, whom have had developmental access bestowed upon them by the grace of Apple.

Seriously though; there is little to no chance that this will not be another locked down device with which Apple will try to monetize your home to the fullest possible extent.

[saagarjha]

Or: people who paid Apple's $99 developer fee? Hardly a group of "chosen people". This would make sense if you were talking about something like CarPlay, but there's no discrimination here other than the one I mentioned.

[robert_foss]

Try launching a new browser on the iStore. You're free to compete, as long as you don't compete against Apple.

Microsoft was fined 561 million Euros for doing the same.

[saagarjha]

Literally on the homepage right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16213280

[untog]

You have to use the Safari rendering engine, though - Apple will not allow any others in the App Store.

I don't think that's as big of an issue as others do, but it is still a restriction.

[saagarjha]

Which is the same one that Apple itself uses. This was an issue a couple years ago when Apple kept the fast Nitro rendering engine for itself, but now that they've provided it to everyone else I wouldn't call it anticompetitive.