A French Company is Suing Apple To Open the iPhone To Rival Browsing Engines (recode.net)

A French maker of open-source software said Friday it is suing Apple in an effort to get the company to make iOS more supportive of Web standards. Nexedi is suing Apple under French law in hopes it can force Apple to allow rival browsing engines onto the iPhone. From a report on Recode:Although Apple allows rival browser apps, such as Google's Chrome, on to the iPhone, the'y all have to use Apple's Web rendering engine. That means the ability to draw on the latest Web standards is is limited to whatever Apple decides to include. That means some newer technologies, like the WebM video standard and the WebRTC protocol for real-time communications, can't be made to work in an iOS browser even though they work in nearly all other browsers. "We hope [this lawsuit] will help Apple to sooner support the latest Web and HTML5 standards on its iOS platform -- the operating system used by all iPhones," Nexedi said in a blog post, which also explains the more granular details of how technology works and what needs to change, in their estimation.

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Re:Why should they?

[AHuxley]

This would be the reason. A francophone cover to get search terms back to plain text, readable form on French servers. Accept all requests from a more inquisitorial legal system rather than having to see what another nation would think of a French legal finding and then take time to consider or not accept.
France does not want another event like Pierre-sur-Haute article deletion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... surrounding gov, mil, collection, so just add more French content to ensure French servers get used by most people more often.
Publicity, relevance will then alter user habits back to French products ensuring total legal access.