[saagarjha]

There’s been a fair bit of commentary regarding the changes around third party App Stores, CTF, etc. that is probably not worth repeating here. The situation with browsers is somewhat more interesting, because while not perfect I actually think it’s probably the only part of the guidelines where Apple is not intentionally complying maliciously. Like, sure, there are some parts that would be nice to have (web clips from third party browsers! In-app web browsing using your choice of engine!) but a lot of it does actually seem somewhat fair. Like they basically shipped Safari’s security and process isolation model directly as API, which is kind of weird I guess but it’s not terrible and shouldn’t be too hard for engines to adopt. The APIs are a bit wonky but I don’t fundamentally see them being any worse than any other platform API Apple offers. You can be upset that you can’t do your own custom scrolling, sure, but I mostly view it as not being able to do your own custom page table walk or your own custom gyroscope handling: the OS has to provide something. And I suspect with the DMA Apple will be a lot more careful moving forward when they use private APIs in Safari to work around bugs or give themselves features they deny other browsers.

[muro]

There was some info about how much Google is paying Apple to be the default in iOS Safari - that's plenty reason to make other browsers as difficult as possible.