• katy ✨
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    21 year ago

    They’d still be restricted to the Webkit rendering engine though, right?

    • @[email protected]
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      191 year ago

      If you can sideload anything you want, why would that be the case? I don’t think there’s a technical limitation, they just don’t allow it on the app store if it doesn’t use safari.

      • katy ✨
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        61 year ago

        Oh that’s true, I always thought iOS just didn’t have that capability at all but that makes sense that it would just be blocked at the App Store level.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      If you can sideload an app there’s nothing Apple can do to stop you from shipping a new rendering engine.

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        1 year ago

        They can still prevent the JIT from working because the resulting native code would not be signed. That would result in worse JavaScript performance in such browsers, but considering today’s hardware and software optimizations, it may not matter that much in practice.

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          81 year ago

          Yes, but the point of the law is that apps that you install that are not from the official store actually have to work. It even has clauses so that installing stuff from different sources than Apple can’t intentionally be a worse experience than the official app IIRC. That might be just for messaging though.