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   Eric A. Meyer (meyerweb@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 18:37:47 JST Eric A. Meyer

   If Apple sticks to their declared intentions, web devs outside the EU won’t be able to test their sites/webapps/whatever against the non-WebKit iOS browsers that will exist in the EU.

   So, get ready for aggressive browser sniffing and “best viewed in/please switch to” badges making a comeback, because those are easy responses to this. Not good responses, at all, but humans are nothing if not lazy.

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     Brendan Jones (brendanjones@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 18:37:46 JST Brendan Jones

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     • Ian Betteridge

     @Meyerweb @ianbetteridge Wait, Apple is allowing (or being forced to allow) non-WebKit iOS browsers? Since when? That’s awesome for Firefox.

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     Brendan Jones (brendanjones@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 20:39:08 JST Brendan Jones

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     @Meyerweb holy crap, have you seen the new App Store terms, though?

     Even if your app is free, "Developers who achieve exceptional scale on iOS in the EU will pay a Core Technology Fee of €0.50 for each first annual install over one million in the past 12 months."

     I would assume that is bad news for Firefox, who I hope have more than 1 million installs in the EU.

     https://developer.apple.com/support/fee-calculator-for-apps-in-the-eu/