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It would not be illegal. In fact the iPhone launched with only Safari.

Because Apple is selling the hardware device, they can decide what software they ship on it. This is not specific to phones, it’s true of all hardware. There’s no feature to load arbitrary browsers onto a PlayStation, for example.

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> There’s no feature to load arbitrary browsers onto a PlayStation, for example

Not anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS

That feature has been dead for over ten years.

I specifically meant letting you download, say, Google Chrome, and it's not actually Chrome but Safari. Unless I'm misunderstanding what that person described, which is totally possible.

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