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Given that Apple has now had more than two years to produce a compliant solution, the European Commission needs to open a specification proceeding to instruct Apple, in precise terms, how these barriers must be removed. This is the most critical intervention the EU could possibly make.
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Apple is setting a ceiling on the entire mobile web. This harms the web’s performance, features and security.
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Speedometer is a browser benchmark originally developed by Apple. Apple’s WebKit team described Speedometer as “the best way yet to measure browser performance”.
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As you can see from the chart below, while there have been improvements, Safari lags significantly behind Edge, Chrome and Firefox.
See:
microsoftedge.github.io/TopDeveloper...
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Also published were some interesting feature comparisons using Microsoft Edge’s top developer needs dashboard highlighting a number of features the prototype supports that Safari (and by extension of Apple’s browser engine ban, all other browsers on iOS) do not.
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Even in the EU and Japan where Apple is now legally required to allow browser vendors to use their own engines, the barriers it has put in place ensure browser vendors are prevented from porting their own engines to iOS.
📖Read more:
open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-...
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Newly published tests show a Chromium/Blink engine running on iOS is 28.6% faster than Safari in Speedometer page responsiveness tests. 🏎️💨📱⚡️
This is a clear example of the costs Apple imposes on consumers and businesses, costs created by its 17-year ban on competing browser engines.
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Newly published tests show a Chromium/Blink engine running on iOS is 28.6% faster than Safari in Speedometer page responsiveness tests. 🏎️💨📱⚡️
This is a clear example of the costs Apple imposes on consumers and businesses, costs created by its 17-year ban on competing browser engines.
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“Microsoft engineers have published benchmark results showing that a Chromium-based browser using its own rendering engine scores 28.6% higher than Safari on Apple's own Speedometer 3.1 performance test on iOS”
www.macrumors.com/2026/06/17/w...
