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by hacker_homie
1712 days ago
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I think it would be this 2nd last paragraph from the article. “ So, how did we get here? Until the release of iOS version 14 in September 2020, you couldn’t change the default web browser on iPhones and iPads. Google has many apps for iOS, including a shell for its Chrome browser. To tie all its apps together, Google introduced a googlechrome: URL scheme in February 2014. It could use these links to direct you from its Search or Mail app and over to Chrome instead of Apple’s Safari browser.” Google did it first and Microsoft would like to link from its settings app to its browser. I’m having a hard time deciding if these are the same thing or not? |
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Well, obviously Microsoft would say they are.
But any common sense evaluation of the situation would recognize that Google introduced their feature to get AROUND a limitation and offer customers choice (If you install Chrome on iOS you're saying you want that to be your browser), and Microsoft introduced the same feature to INTRODUCE a limitation (In spite of any other browsers installed, Microsoft is ignoring all signals and already supported protocol handling capabilities to force you into their browser).
While a pedantic techie can read this and say it doesn't matter, the courts may see it differently.