Like Spotify,Mozillarecently spoke publicly to voice his displeasure with the new App Store guidelines. This follows new laws on digital markets, including theDMA (Digital Market Act)Whoforced Apple to open its ecosystem to competition. This is something the firm is struggling to achieve given the restrictive measures it is putting in place to discourage developers from selling outside the App Store. Thus allowing Cupertino tocontinue to benefit from the current pricing model,and therefore the income that goes with it.
While the developers were hoping for a complete opening of the ecosystem to Apple, this is not the case. Some thought they could say goodbye to the 30% fees they have to pay to sell their products and services to iPhone owners, but that's not the plan at the moment.
Mozilla is “extremely disappointed”
In the case of Mozilla that we discuss here, its dissatisfaction does not come from the App Store fees, but from the fact that Apple is satisfied with the bare minimum regarding the application of EU measures. One of them is to allow third-party browsers to“use their own web engine and are no longer obliged to use WebKit, Apple's native solution powering Safari”.
However, the EU only imposed this measure on Apple on iOS, not iPadOS. Probably because the number of iPad users is not large enough to make it a “GateKeeper ».
For this reason,Mozillais now free to use an engine other than Apple's for its iPhone browser, but it cannot do so for the iPad. Which therefore adds a lot of work to the company if it decides to use its engine on iPhone, while continuing to use Apple's WebKit on iPad.Mozillawould have liked to be able to jointly continue the development of its iPad and iPhone apps on its own engine.
The spokesperson forMozillaDamiano DeMonte told The Verge:
We're still reviewing the technical details, but we're extremely disappointed with Apple's proposed plan to restrict the recently announced BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps. This would force an independent browser like Firefox to create and maintain two separate browser implementations — a burden Apple won't have to bear itself.
Cupertino plays for time
If Apple does not give up and circumvents EU measures as much as possible, it is only to continue to make as much money as it can thanks to App Store commissions, and for as long as possible. possible. She knows very well that ultimately, once everything is clarified (this could take years), it is unlikely that she will be able to continue to act in this way. So she buys time before that happens, and time is money. In the meantime, you candownload Mozilla Firefox here.
See also:
i-nfo.fr - Official iPhon.fr app
By : Keleops AG
