Apple’s lock on iPhone browser engines gets a December deadline

Japan doesn’t privation Apple to springiness it the EU treatment.

We mightiness yet spot the archetypal iPhone browsers built connected apical of third-party engines present that Japanese regulators person taken up the issue. 

Apple’s malicious compliance successful the EU has truthful acold prevented Chrome, and its Blink engine, for example, from coming to iOS, but precocious published guidelines related to Japan’s Smartphone Act could alteration that. Not lone bash they acceptable a December deadline for restrictions to beryllium lifted, but besides specify that Apple can’t enforce alternate rules that marque it hard to follow alternatives to the company’s ain WebKit browser engine.

According to a translation provided by the Open Web Advocacy organization, the guidelines forestall Apple from doing the following:

“Imposing unreasonable method restrictions connected idiosyncratic app providers portion allowing them to follow alternate browser engines, placing excessive fiscal burdens connected idiosyncratic app providers for adopting alternate browser engines, and steering smartphone users distant from utilizing idiosyncratic bundle that incorporates alternate browser engines.”