Maybe iOS browsers other than Safari can have extensions and more control over their builds. Just switched back to Safari after ads got to be too much on Firefox for iOS.

So are we gonna get an alternative OS for iPhones? I wonder how that would even work, with the hardware-level security that I assume requires a signature that Apple won’t wanna make publicly available.

And what about the SDKs? Would you be able to reuse the Apple-maintained ones, or would we need FOSS reimplementations – or would that even be possible without violating IP?

Cuz some of the ways that Apple achieves privacy while enabling functionality (I’m thinking things like ARKit shared sessions) could be considered trade secrets, and I wouldn’t be comfortable using an alternative that doesn’t provide the same level of privacy…

In a statement, Apple told Bloomberg “We remain very concerned about the privacy and data security risks the DMA poses for our users.”

Usually, the “We’re gonna fight this!” response the corpos publish when we do antitrust action is like “Yeah sure buddy, whatever you gotta tell yourself”. But this one does actually ring kinda true for me.