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Apple vs the Law

Apple & Google at the DMA compliance workshops, June 2025

Mike from CODE(Coalition for Open Digital Ecosystems - 13 members including Google, Opera, Qualcomm, Meta) asked why Apple doesn't provide a system prompt to switch default browsers, and why they've placed so many onerous contractual requirements around launching an alternative engine. Apple started trying to deflect here, saying the topic is only supposed to be on choice screens and defaults, but that "many of you with the same group have traveled very far to have this conversation" so they would, oh-so-generously, answer the question.. by saying that "for whatever reason, they've chosen not to [bring their engines to iOS"], claiming that "everything is in place to ship here in the EU today", and repeating that "there's a lot of OWA people here in the room. John managed to get another couple questions in before the round finished, one asking if and when PWAs will run in third-party browser engines instead of only Safari, and why installing web apps is so difficult on iOS - with Apple repeatedly trying to make it even harder.

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