"Apple’s claims for WebKit’s superior speed, privacy and security don’t stand up to scrutiny. It’s time for the regulators to strike down Apple’s restrictive terms and conditions, and compel Cupertino to fix BrowserEngineKit, so we can have genuine competition on iOS." 🧵👇️ (1/7) 📖Read more:

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. 🧵👇️ (1/8)

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. 🧵👇️ (1/8)

“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...

Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft. "The performance tax comes to 28.6%, almost as much as Apple's 30% commission. Even without performance optimisation, Blink on iOS is faster than WebKit. But you can't have it, because of Apple's iOS rules.

Safari 28.6% slower than Chromium on iOS. This is the tax every single user on iOS has to pay as a result of the #AppleBrowserBan www.theregister.com/software/202...

Proton CTO Bart Butler urges the 🇬🇧 UK to start enforcing competition laws against Big Tech before it's 'too late' 🧵👇️ (1/7) 📖Read more: www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

The Digital Markets Act was designed to move fast, but Politico’s reporting highlights how enforcement is being slowed by legal caution, limited resources, and the threat of litigation from Big Tech How well the DMA is enforced will have far-reaching consequences for the Web 🧵👇️ (1/10) 📖Read more:

Open Web Advocacy joins 17 businesses, industry bodies, public figures and civil society organisations calling for more ambitious and urgent enforcement of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA) 🚨 🧵👇️ (1/28) 📖Read more: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/open-le...

Open Web Advocacy joins 17 businesses, industry bodies, public figures and civil society organisations calling for more ambitious and urgent enforcement of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA) 🚨 🧵👇️ (1/28) 📖Read more: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/open-le...

The 🇪🇺 European Commission is reportedly planning to ​fine Google a high triple-digit million euro amount ‌as part of a non-compliance investigation under the Digital Markets Act. 🧵👇️ (1/4) 📖Read more: www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The 🇺🇸U.S. District Court for New Jersey is appointing three special masters to DOJ vs Apple to assist with the discovery process. This case has important implications for ⚙️browser engines and 🌐web apps. www.courtlistener.com/docket/68362... 🧵👇️ (1/5)

Firefox now supports Web Serial on desktop 🦊 This means web apps can connect to compatible hardware devices such as microcontrollers, development boards, 3D printers, power meters, and other serial-connected hardware. Allowing the Web to do even more! 📖Read more: 🧵👇️ (1/11)

Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has been granted leave to intervene in Apple v. European Commission (T-359/25). Apple is seeking to annul a 2025 Commission decision imposing interoperability measures it must take to comply with Article 6(7) of the Digital Markets Act. 🧵👇️ (1/9) 📖Read more:

"Apple’s latest iOS 26.5 update is bringing some AirPods and Apple Watch-exclusive features to third-party earbuds and wearables — but only for phones in the EU." 🧵👇️ (1/8) 📖Read more: www.techradar.com/phones/ios/i...

The 🇺🇸⚖️ US Supreme Court has declined to pause the order holding Apple in contempt in the Epic Games lawsuit. 🧵👇️ (1/7) 📖Read more: www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...

The 🇺🇸⚖️ US Supreme Court has declined to pause the order holding Apple in contempt in the Epic Games lawsuit. 🧵👇️ (1/7) 📖Read more: www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...

The EU’s Digital Markets Act choice screens are working 🇪🇺 Since March 2024, more than 6 million people in the EU have selected Firefox as their default browser, roughly one every 10 seconds. 🦊 User choice and merit should drive browser competition, not control of operating systems. 📖Read more:

The EU's Digital Markets Act is delivering real wins for consumers in the EU, and in some cases globally. Apple and Google are opening up functionality that was previously reserved for their own products. But one glaring failure remains: browser engines on iOS. 🧵👇️ (1/23)

Amazing post. I hope web devs understand this as downstream of antitrust pressure on Apple re: iOS & other browsers. @open-web-advocacy.org won the headcount Apple poured in since '20 because it allowed them to claim engagement w/o threatening the app store: blog.gitbutler.com/the-great-cs...

🔥 "Capable browsers, and the PWAs they support, hold the power to grow an ecosystem of applications that no gatekeeper can own or tax, based on standardised APIs that resist enclosure. But few outlets are connecting these dots for readers." 📖 Read: infrequently.org/2026/04/the-...

Thank you Open Web Advocacy (@open-web-advocacy.org) for supporting Keep Android Open @keepandroidopen.bsky.social #KeepAndroidOpen

OWA NEW REPORT 🚨 Apple’s interoperability “commitments” in the UK 🇬🇧 are a smokescreen: 👉 No obligation to share anything 👉 Broad excuses to say no 👉 Fees for APIs 👉 No public transparency They can comply… and change nothing 😬 Bad for devs. Bad for users. OWA gives you the deep dive: 🧵👇️ (1/13)

OWA NEW REPORT 🚨 Apple’s interoperability “commitments” in the UK 🇬🇧 are a smokescreen: 👉 No obligation to share anything 👉 Broad excuses to say no 👉 Fees for APIs 👉 No public transparency They can comply… and change nothing 😬 Bad for devs. Bad for users. OWA gives you the deep dive: 🧵👇️ (1/13)

Alex Moore (Executive Director of OWA) and John Ozbay (CEO and Founder of Cryptee) were recently interviewed by Simonetta Vezzoso, a European academic specializing in digital competition law and the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Check it out: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/questio... 🧵👇 (1/7)

This is great news, and outstanding work by @open-web-advocacy.org. Without their tenacity, the web wouldn't have a chance at a comeback on mobile.

In case anyone is wondering why in-app browsers (without opt-in) are bad: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-...

In a significant win for smaller browsers, the open web, and the 🇪🇺EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Google has agreed to place the browser selected through the EU browser choice screen directly in the Pixel homescreen hotseat (replacing Chrome). open-web-advocacy.org/blog/google-... 🧵👇 (1/7)

Which? - The UK’s not for profit consumer champion had this to say about the UK CMA's proposed remedies. 👉 Read More: www.which.co.uk/policy-and-i...

⚠️ LAST CALL TO WRITE TO CMA: 5pm TODAY ⚠️ Under the current proposal, Apple can keep iOS and iPhone functionality exclusive to its own apps and services. If you want fair access to APIs for competing apps and browsers email 📧 [email protected] See: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-... 🧵👇️(1/5)

⚠️ WRITE TO THE UK'S CMA BY TUESDAY 5pm ⚠️ Under the current proposal, Apple can keep iOS and iPhone functionality exclusive to its own apps and services If you want fair access to APIs for competing apps and browsers email 📧 [email protected] See: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-... 🧵👇️ (1/5)

⚠️ WRITE TO THE UK'S CMA BY TUESDAY 5pm ⚠️ Under the current proposal, Apple can keep iOS and iPhone functionality exclusive to its own apps and services If you want fair access to APIs for competing apps and browsers email 📧 [email protected] See: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-... 🧵👇️ (1/5)

If you are in the UK, I'd like to beg 5-10 minutes of your time to file comment with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) about the proposed (toothless) "Interoperability Commitments" from Apple and Google. Per usual, @open-web-advocacy.org has deets: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-inte…

We recently spoke with @redmonk.com senior analyst @kateholterhoff.com about a question that has shaped the mobile ecosystem for over a decade: why has the open web struggled to compete with native apps on mobile, and what regulators can do to restore competition? 🧵👇 (1/5)

The UK's CMA says that developers need access to key iOS features to build innovative products and services, so UK consumers do not miss out but Apple’s proposed interoperability commitments are so weak they are essentially meaningless. 🧵👇 (1/10)

If you're a UK developer, or have customers for your apps in UK, please consider telling the UK competition regulator what you think. It doesn't have to be an essay, it doesn't have to be a formal report, and it can be anonymous. But you can make a difference.

The UK's CMA says that developers need access to key iOS features to build innovative products and services, so UK consumers do not miss out but Apple’s proposed interoperability commitments are so weak they are essentially meaningless. 🧵👇 (1/10)

Hear my conversation with Alex Moore, Executive Director of @open-web-advocacy.org, as we unpack why the web has struggled to compete with native apps on mobile, and what regulators are finally doing about it on @redmonk.com's MonkCast. redmonk.com/videos/alex-... youtube.com/shorts/IdC1Y...

On Tuesday, the CMA announced that Apple and Google have proposed app certainty and interoperable access commitments. Of particular interest to OWA was the interoperability requirements, as we have argued that the CMA should impose an equivalent to Article 6(7) of the DMA.

Breaking: Google Appeals Final Judgment in DOJ Case Google is requesting a stay on certain provisions of the Final Judgment pending Google’s appeal of the Court’s liability and remedies rulings.

日本のスマホ新法は、Appleに、ブラウザベンダーが日本で独自のブラウザエンジンを使うことを認めるよう義務付けています。 しかしAppleは、過去21ヶ月にわたり欧州デジタル市場法の同条項の遵守を事実上避けるために用いてきた方法を使うつもりのようです。 詳しくはこちら: open-web-advocacy.org/ja/blog/how_... 具体的には、Appleは独自エンジンを使いたいブラウザベンダーに対し、既存アプリの更新として提供することを認めず、既存の日本ユーザーを引き継がない全く新しいアプリとして提供することを求めています。

OWA's 2025 in Review! A huge and special thank-you to all of our volunteers and donors. We can't wait to see what we can do together in 2026! open-web-advocacy.org/blog/owa-202...

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and HTML, has expressed support for compelling Apple to allow other browser engines on iOS. He also states that having a powerful browser on iOS would "change the dynamic" with respect to web app's viability on mobile. 1/4

The 🇬🇧UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially designated Apple as having Strategic Market Status (SMS). After four years investigating Apple’s restrictions on browser engines and web apps, the CMA now has statutory authority to enforce a code of conduct. 1/12

Reason: Push is only half of whats needed. Web Push is gated behind install. Install for native is easy, for web apps it's hidden to the point developers are forced to build native apps, the very developers that would be using web push. Missing lots of features. webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/we...

Safari bugs don't just make Safari worse, they make EVERY OTHER BROWSER on iOS worse. #AppleBrowserBan

One of my jobs on Chrome is quantifying overall product quality signals. This quarter we're taking a hit on crashes entirely due to iOS, which looks to be primarily due to WebKit and iOS bugs. When I try to check on the status of the current major one (bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi...), I get this:

Last week, OWA spoke at the 🇪🇺EU Parliament’s Digital Markets Act Working Group on Apple’s ongoing non-compliance with the DMA and why the open web is vital for Europe’s digital future. 🔗 Read our full speech: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/owa-at-... 1/4

Apple's playbook is the same as Big Oil's: delay is winning. It's good the EU didn't give away its power to regulate like a common Chuck Schumer, but Apple is brazenly violating the DMA to deny EU citizens real browser choice because it threatens the App Store: infrequently.org/2025/09/appl...

"so, um, this law you passed...yes, we know we're not complying, and, well, you see, it's *inconvenient* that we keep getting caught trying to mislead you. Could you scrap it? Cheers." -- Cupertino www.france24.com/en/live-news...