Apple won’t be fined by the EU over browser choice, after second change

The European Union is reportedly set to announce that Apple won’t be fined for failing to comply with an antitrust law relating to choice of iPhone web browser. The maximum fine could have been as high as 10% of the company’s global revenue. Apple initially made one change to iOS to allow users to set a different default browser, but the EU had ruled that this was not enough to make it compliant with the law … Web browser choice Originally, the iPhone came with Safari as the default web browser, and you couldn’t change this. You could install a competing browser like Chrome, but if you tapped on a link in an email, for example, it would open in Safari. Additionally, Apple insisted that all competing browsers use WebKit, meaning that it wasn’t possible for them to offer features not available in Safari, or to provide faster performance. EU antitrust law required Apple to make changes to enable fair competition, and Apple then allowed users to manually select a different default bro ... Read full article.