Webventures: An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers "iOS Safari is more than an inconvenience for developers [..] frequent showstopping bugs, a large patch gap, and lack of competing engines ensures the web is not a credible competitor to native."
EU Commission has opened a proceeding into the process Apple has set up to address interoperability requests submitted by developers and third parties for iOS and iPadOS. This is a specification proceeding to "assist Apple in complying with its interoperability obligations". The EU commission states the process to address interoperability requests should be "transparent, timely, and fair". See:
For 7 years, Google has failed to keep its commitment to share the ability to install Web Apps with third-party browsers on Android. With regulatory intervention from the EU, Japan and the UK that may be changing. Read about it here:
“Apple told MacRumors that Open Web Advocacy's allegation that Apple is misleading the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is inaccurate” “The design was apparently never intended to discourage users from setting third-party browsers as the default.”
The Register: "Apple accused of hoodwinking UK antitrust cops" Apple claims they aren't being anti-competitive, but there isn't really any plausible deniability for that UI decision, so that might explain why they are trying to pretend it never existed.