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-...
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The second issue with the proposed approach is that accepting commitments may set an unintended benchmark for the acceptability of commitments in place of Conduct Requirements. In allowing these priority issues to be resolved through commitments, and noting the prominence that is associated with the first set of interventions in this investigation (and only the second interventions proposed by the Digital Markets Competition Regime as a whole), SMS firms may take encouragement that offering commitments is a viable way to resolve issues that have been identified … and it may result in increased pressure on the CMA to enforce weaker remedies in place of stronger intervention that leads to better market outcomes. Increasing the likelihood of commitments being offered as a first port of call also adds burden to the process that may slow the pace that the CMA is able to achieve effective remedies. We encourage the CMA to recognise and guard against this risk.
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 ⚠️ DEMAND FAIR ACCESS on iOS Equal API Access to All Apps Equal Performance and Privileges Enforceable Deadlines & Oversight FAILURE MEANS: Developers can’t compete with Apple’s Apps & Hardware Apple keeps features to themselves Browsers & the Web won’t be able to compete Sets Global Precedent for weak digital legislation Less Competition = More Expensive + Worse Quality for consumers 👇 Read more, OWA blog link below
⚠️ 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 📧 mobilesms@cma.gov.uk
See: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-...
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⚠️WRITE TO THE UK’s CMA BY TUESDAY 5PM ⚠️ DEMAND FAIR ACCESS on iOS Equal API access for Third-Party Apps Equal Performance and Privileges Enforceable Deadlines & Oversight FAILURE MEANS: Developers can’t compete with Apple’s Apps & Hardware Apple keeps features to themseleves Browsers & the Web won’t be able to compete Sets Global Precedent for weak digital legislation Less Competition = More Expensive + Worse Quality for consumers 👇 Read more, OWA blog link below
⚠️ 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 📧 mobilesms@cma.gov.uk
See: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-...
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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?
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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've released an ESLint and OXLint plugin for preact-signals, most of the current rules are footguns we have fallen into ourselves or have seen the issue often.
Go try it out! github.com/preactjs/sig...
Read the full analysis here:
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Furthermore, it is important that developers have interoperable access to key functionality in Apple’s iOS and iPadOS. Without the ability to access these enabling functions, UK developers cannot create the full range of innovative products and services that they would do otherwise, and UK consumers miss out as a result. CMA - Proposed Commitments - Call for Evidence (emphasis added)
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.
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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.
We also wrote about our concerns about the loss of smaller browser vendors such as Mozilla if search engine deals with them were banned:
open-web-advocacy.org/blog/is-it-w...
We were however broadly supportive of the DOJ case and supported ending Apple and Google's $20 billion a year search deal, and other remedies in the case:
open-web-advocacy.org/blog/break-g...
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.
I still haven't sorted out how to handle the cables. Just hiding them 😅
A conversation with an incredibly technical friend last night made it clear to me that the biggest change in computing of the last 15 years eludes the SV blob: most client devices are slow, low-end Androids with *incredible*, *up-to-date* browsers.
I've been using more and more PWAs on desktop and I'm really impressed by the install experience
grooovinger.com/notes/pwa-in...
One of my hopes for 2026 is that browser vendors take more responsibility for today's pervasively bad experiences. Nobody wants a slow site, but they also don't want to dismiss a mailing-list pop-up that blocks scrolling. Browsers need to step in:
infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...
🚀 We just shipped v0.214.0!
TypeScript receives pretty errors! 🎉
Thanks KyleBarton!
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Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Intel, Apple all came together to celebrate this great milestone:
WebGPU is now supported in major browsers!
Check out our post.
Frontend is failing. 75% of devices with browsers are smartphones, but not even half of sites pass Core Web Vitals on them. Why not? Too much JavaScript, added to indulge SPA fantasies the data is falsifying in real time:
infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...
Best I can do is make a terrible responsive design site that loads about 100MB of JS, images, and fonts. Can I interest you in our React Native mobile app that's totally worth your time?
Just a few more years and we'll all have fast devices! It's coming, you just wait. Surely the next process node shrink will be cheaper.
Geekbench 6 single-core scores over time at 4 price points: - fastest iOS - fastest Android - mid-tier Android - low-end Android
How's the mobile CPU landscape evolving? Thanks to process node improvements, a mid-range Android from 2025 is (finally!) as fast as 2017's iPhone 8, but a low-end (~$100) smartphone isn't yet as speedy as a decade-old iPhone 6s.
I stared into the abyss and 12MB of uncompressed JS, containing thousands of SVG icons, webpacked into cursed React components stared backed like a horrifying fractal of beady little eyes.
Thank you for all your support—this means so much to us!
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We need leaders on the web who understand the stakes. The wealth bubble has made a lot of these people extremely complacent, and over time, that seems to have dulled them...which makes it a mystery that they keep talking like they know things.
The Vergecast:
"iPad just isn't the same as a mac", and all that.
Then Nilay asks "What does a mac represent to you?"
David: "Desktop-class browsers."
Nilay: "You want Chrome! You want Chrome and Electron apps!"
In other words: competing browser engines on i(Pad)OS.
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I’ve become accustomed to my iPhone at this point, but boy howdy does safari disappoint me at every opportunity it gets. The DMA has been in effect for long enough that I wish they’d challenge Apple’s awful rules for building a real browser.
Watch the original Verge interview here:
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