No, you shouldn't. It should be up to the manufacturer. Your only freedom should be to buy or not to buy.
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No, you shouldn't. It should be up to the manufacturer. Your only freedom should be to buy or not to buy.
It's your hardware but not your software (in this case iOS) - and arguably Apple's greatest appeal IS the software. Their hardware is not that special or world-beating, it's the ecosystem and software that makes it popular.
We arguably buy a shell for our operating system of choice; we are not iPhone customers but iOS ones.
Shame the tech press seems bent on Apple innovating the shell but never bugs them about the OS.
Apple could open the software and still have things like Universal Control and an iMessage app on macOS if they wanted to. Heck, they could even write an iMessage app for Android and Windows.
Same with speed limits. I bought a car that can do 150 mph, it is not up to the police, government or common sense to limit by freedom!
Imagine there are really people out seeing this as a bad point. I mean, I also use Apple's stuff for most of the apps like Safari, Calendar, Notes etc. But wtf is wrong with these people thinking it's bad to give them freedom to do whatever they want with the device?
It will probably change with iOS 19 when they add LLM and bring it in line with other assistants on the market.
You are welcome to wait for it, I've given up listening to Apple's hype when it comes to Siri, gaming, and iPadOS.
That was possible even before.
PS all 3rd-party apps, either through other app marketplaces or downloaded directly from the web (one can also download them from web after authorising them in the Settings app) still require to be signed by Apple
People/Sheep like you are the reason/problem out here, why manufacturers like Audi, BMW tend to offer essential stuff like heat seating, AC etc. on subscription basis (only)....
I’m a huge fan of malicious compliance in response to authoritarian over-reach and abuse.
I defend their right to engage in that foolishness. If enough sheeple buy into their despicable behaviours, they will stay in business. If not, let them go out of business.
Why do you think you deserve to be any company’s overbearing parent, then bash people who value freedom? That seems weird.
I’m a bit late to this, but there seems to be a real misunderstanding of what these default apps are for. For email and web browsing, they’re the apps that are trigger when specific links are tapped, such as mailto: or https: . For the phone and messages apps, it’s for apps that get triggered when you tap a link on a website or in your Contacts. (Though I don’t understand why none of the alternate messaging apps I have on my phone show up in the list.) All the options here hook into iOS in some way. There are no links for music that would open a user specified music app; same for podcasts. So there’s no point of having a setting for a default apps like this.
“Siri, play the Time to Wake Up playlist.” If you use Spotify, you might want it to be the default music app, and with the right hooks Siri could do it… but if she only looks in Apple Music for that playlist, she won’t find it. 🤷♂️
But that would require full access to your Spotify library database. And it would have to be indexed by Siri. That’s the thing about these links like email and web links; they use protocols that don’t require any indexing. As for the calling and messaging settings, they use your contacts library, which are indexed by the device.
It wouldn't.
Certainly not full access.
Spotify can expose names of playlists to Siri for indexing through an API - without granting it full access to their database.