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Apple's mobile browser policies and Google pact are 'holding back innovation,' UK regulator says | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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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@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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.