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by robert_foss 3067 days ago
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.

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

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.