The European Commission last week surveyed developers on the old continent to question them on the impact of the disappearance of web applications on iPhones and iPads. Indeed, Apple plans to end this functionality within a few weeks due to issues of “security” of user data in the words of the Cupertino company.
With the arrival of iOS 17.4 and the compliance of iOS with the new European DMA, Apple is forced to open third-party web browsers to their own engine. Until today, these third-party solutions, like Firefox or Chrome, had to use the iPhone's navigation engine,Webkit, which made them slower.
But the DMA ended this monopoly of Webkit on third-party web browsers. So, to ensure the security of user data, Apple announced that it was impossible to keepweb applications on European iPhoness. These can be opened by browsers other than Safari, running on an engine other than Webkit.
Europe ready to launch new investigation
But this new measure taken by Apple is far from pleasing the European Commission. In fact, the institution set up the DMA to put an end to the monopoly and impunity of the web giants. But Apple's maneuver looks a lot like circumventing the rules.
In its article on the subject the Financial Times explains that the European Commission could very well launch an investigation in the coming days against Apple if the web applications are not back. For its part, Apple announces in a press release that this modification should ensure the security of tour data and this change will only concern one“small part of users”.
The European Commission has not yet opened an investigation but has confirmed that it has sent questionnaires to a certain number of developers to find out their feelings about this new change coming to iOS.
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