Apple finally letting people run third-party browsers unfettered – but only in the EU and not because it wants to

For iOS 17.4, Apple is making sweeping changes to iPhones in the EU including finally giving users the ability to run native third-party browsers on their phone.You may be wondering, “Aren’t there already third-party browsers on iOS?” Not exactly. The way things work currently is developers must rework their software to run on the WebKit framework, effectively turning browsers like Chrome on iOS into a reskinned Safari. As a result, features that work fine on Android don’t on iOS.

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