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Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA

TL;DR: Apple’s rules and technical restrictions are blocking other browser vendors from successfully offering their own engines to users in the EU. At the recent Digital Markets Act (DMA) workshop, Apple claimed it didn’t know why no browser vendor has ported their engine to iOS over the past 15 months.

The list of changes that we believe Apple needs to make to be compliant with the DMA with respect to browsers and web apps on iOS is far larger, and we outline them in detail at the end of the article. However, as was already mentioned, they have various restrictions, including having two different versions of the app, limitations on testing, cumbersome contract requirements, still making it onerous to meaningfully take advantage of the browser engine interoperability. He then shifted blame onto browser vendors, stating that Mozilla and Google have simply “chosen not to” bring their engines to iOS, omitting the fact that Apple’s technical and contractual constraints make doing so unviable.

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