{"id":41001,"date":"2023-11-03T21:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T01:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41001"},"modified":"2024-03-14T15:33:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:33:53","slug":"apples-three-safaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/03\/apples-three-safaris\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&rsquo;s Three Safaris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/11\/02\/apple_safari_browser\/\">Thomas Claburn<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=38123216\">Hacker<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=38136466\">News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/11\/02\/apple_safari_browser\/\"><p>Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim &#x2013; that it offers not one but three distinct web browsers, all coincidentally named Safari.<\/p><p>Never mind that Apple itself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/#:~:text=Same%20Safari.%0ADifferent%20device.\">advertises<\/a> the sameness of its Safari browsers when pitching its Continuity feature: &ldquo;Same Safari. Different device.&rdquo;<\/p><p>Cupertino also claimed it maintains five app stores and five operating systems, and that these core platform services, apart from iOS, fell below the usage threshold European rules set for regulating large platform services and ensuring competition.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This strategy appears not to have been very effective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpenWebAdvocacy\/status\/1720238162310758466\">Open Web Advocacy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpenWebAdvocacy\/status\/1720238162310758466\">Apple made this attempt despite the Digital Markets Act containing specific clauses to address this exact behaviour.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/06\/dma-gatekeepers-designated\/\">DMA Gatekeepers Designated<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/11\/unraveling-the-digital-markets-act\/\">Unraveling the Digital Markets Act<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"apples-three-safaris-update-2023-11-20\">Update (2023-11-20): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/11\/04\/apple-argued-safari-is-three-different-browsers\/\">MacRumors<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim &#x2013; that it offers not one but three distinct web browsers, all coincidentally named Safari.Never mind that Apple itself advertises the sameness of its Safari browsers when pitching its Continuity feature: &ldquo;Same Safari. Different device.&rdquo;Cupertino also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-11-04T01:56:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"96882c73-b53f-4311-80b1-34768b287e31","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-11-20T19:45:00Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Alogsc7U_QxGAsTR2iyh-MQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2085,91,1048,2570,1927,31,2321,1814,2322,209,30,39,2385,386,103],"class_list":["post-41001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-continuity","tag-digital-markets-act-dma","tag-european-union","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-ipados","tag-ipados-17","tag-legal","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-mobilesafari","tag-safari"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41129,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41001\/revisions\/41129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}