Awesome really hope this spreads to other regions.
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Ok, as an American web developer how do I test sites in Firefox on iOS?
put a big banner for iOS users telling them that apple doesn't let you test it, and that any complaints should be forwarded to apple
Didn't even think about that haha.
I guess the best you could realistically do would be to adhere to web standards (not Chrome standards) and use desktop Firefox or Firefox on Android for testing as they should be the same internally as the hypothetical iOS port.
You don't and that's a feature for Apple.
Same way you test on Safari if you don't have a Mac, I guess. (i.e. not at all, or with the same rendering engine on a different device and hoping it is similar enough, or via a service like Browserstack.)
It'll fall on deaf ears but complain as an ios dev to apple
Pray it just works? Get consumer-friendly legislation to pass in the US somehow? Maybe a genie wish or an infinity gauntlet could be used for this purpose.
Apple has never been great at enabling developer testing. I certainly don't see why they'd care if shit works on third party browsers. The more broken apps are just means the more users who will give up and use Safari.
Hmm, I wonder if we could get an EU law that requires enabling testing of third party apps globally, as anything else is suppressing competition.
Apple's Infinity Gauntlet will be $4999 and have a surprise battery backpack.
This is very bittersweet living in the UK. But still obligatory fuck Apple.
I always figured that brexit is going to be a big kick in the balls on the long run
Why not come back? :D
Jailbreaking finally has utility again.
Do you think someone will figure out a jail break to unlock EU only features?
Honestly, it’s possible. A lack of incentive is half of the issue, the other half is the lack of talent working on a jailbreak because the community is full of the most maddeningly annoying children to have ever been birthed. It’s much more profitable to sell the increasingly complex bugs than to use them. If the jailbreak community manages to avoid doxxing, threatening, or disparaging a major dev for a few months, something might eventually come out.
zero reason ever for any piece of technology to know where i live and make my experience worse because of it
"This change is a result of the DMA’s requirements, and means that EU users will be confronted with a list of default browsers before they have the opportunity to understand the options available to them,” the company says. “The screen also interrupts EU users’ experience the first time they open Safari intending to navigate to a webpage.”
lol Apple is throwing a tantrum
That's just Apple's default state.
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