@gurupanguji<p><strong>Apple’s browser engine gatekeeping has still not come to an end…</strong></p><blockquote><p>This should be great news for consumers — particularly if these kinds of regulations are offered beyond the current three regions (EU, UK, and now Japan). Apple has traditionally been a laggard when it comes to adding open web features that might be competitive with native apps. Opening up the App Store to other browsers, and forcing browser choice, could help mitigate that and allow open web features to fall into the hands of iPhone and iPad users sooner.</p><p>One way this could go wrong, of course, is if it further entrenches Chrome’s position in the market. Chrome already represents two thirds of web browsers. <em>Although Chrome does a far better job of supporting modern open web features (because it suits Google’s business model), it would be a real shame if regulation designed to promote competition actually reduces it on the web</em><strong>.</strong> (emphasis mine)</p><p><a href="https://werd.io/japan-apple-must-lift-browser-engine-ban-by-december/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December</a></p></blockquote><p>I am not a fan of these kind of jabs on chrome. Google’s <a href="https://gurupanguji.com/?p=11828" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">stewardship of chromium and chrome’s been nothing but stellar</a>. It is a better browser and Google’s always maintained that any browser engine can run in Android. There are many dings on Google, but this isn’t one of them. </p><p>And that’s a shame. You only need to use Chrome on a Mac or <em>any of the tens of other browsers that are cropping up</em> to realize that while safari and webkit are great, limiting them is <em>not</em> the ideal choice for an apple device. </p><p>However, at the risk of wishful thinking, Ben and I agree that we want to see a million browsers bloom. Fwiw, it won’t happen if Perplexity / OpenAI buys Chrome either. </p><blockquote><p>We’ll see how this all pans out, but the best outcome would be a web that has a plethora of different browser engines from different vendors with different business and sustainability models.</p><p></p></blockquote><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/ai/" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/browser/" target="_blank">#browser</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/comet/" target="_blank">#comet</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/edge/" target="_blank">#edge</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/firefox/" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/llms/" target="_blank">#llms</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/microsoft/" target="_blank">#microsoft</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/model/" target="_blank">#model</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/mozilla/" target="_blank">#mozilla</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/openai/" target="_blank">#openai</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/perplexity/" target="_blank">#perplexity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/web/" target="_blank">#web</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/web-platform/" target="_blank">#webPlatform</a></p>