{"id":395,"date":"2025-03-13T18:10:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/?p=4297441"},"modified":"2025-03-13T18:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:10:03","slug":"uk-watchdog-slams-apple-google-for-stifling-mobile-browser-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tecnoartesanos.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/uk-watchdog-slams-apple-google-for-stifling-mobile-browser-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Watchdog Slams Apple & Google for Stifling Mobile Browser Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.K.\u2019s Competition and Markets Authority has found that Apple is restricting competition in the country by limiting the use of rival browsers on its iOS devices and effectively requiring developers to use its WebKit browser engine. This, and a number of other concerns, is \u201cholding back innovation and could be limiting growth in the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apple and Google own the two most popular mobile operating systems<\/a> in the world, iOS and Android, meaning they are easily able to push their own browsers, Safari and Chrome, onto their users. If Google and Apple don\u2019t take active steps to allow users to discover third-party browsers, they will never have any real competition, and therefore won\u2019t be incentivised to innovate and provide the best possible products. They can also prevent third-party browsers from offering comparable or better service.<\/p>\n