I never said it was. I said it was becoming lagdroid.
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iOS 18.2 Adds 'Default' Section for Managing Your Preferred Apps
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Strongly dislike this current trend in Apple design with that HUGE block of descriptor
Letting EU dictate stuff for an american company is pretty dumb. Tim Cook has been trying to lobby the fed to do something about this, but probably not possible w/ this current administration
American companies still have to follow the laws of the countries and regions they operate in. What about this are you not getting?
What unnecessary and redundant remarks. iOS isn’t turning either Android or Windows. And more customization is nowhere near a bad thing.
American companies doing want they want in another country is the height of arrogance.
You follow the rules of the country you are operating in, not where you’re from or where you’re based at. Do you think American citizens only follow American laws when traveling out of the country? No, they don’t. American rules end at the border.
I get some of the hate this get.
Probably not the people commenting here, but most of the iPhone users aren't tech-savvy.
And there's a lot of privacy risks involved in let a third party app replace the Phone app for example.
Android has been targeted for years, with fake apps hiding malware, key-loggers, among others things.
While choice is good, 99% of the users will be better off using only the default apps in their iPhone.
Probably not the people commenting here, but most of the iPhone users aren't tech-savvy.
And there's a lot of privacy risks involved in let a third party app replace the Phone app for example.
Android has been targeted for years, with fake apps hiding malware, key-loggers, among others things.
While choice is good, 99% of the users will be better off using only the default apps in their iPhone.
But no MAPS!?! If anything needs a "default" setting it's Maps!! Apple Maps is still astonishingly bad, dangerous even. I can't even count how many times (even just this week) where Apple Maps sent me to the wrong location, address, street, town, city, state.... I've literally searched for a restaurant (from the parking lot of said restaurant) and Apple Maps can't find it. Even when it gets the end location right, it will take me through the most befuddled corn maze of back streets and loop backs rather than directly from A to B. Google Maps should be the default period!
No default for changing these is pathetic though:
- Music - Apple Music > Spotify > Deezer > Amazon Music > Pandora > YouTube Music etc...
- Navigation - Apple Maps > Waze > Google Maps etc...
So you want the American government to dictate stuff for the EU goverment? That sounds way better.
Love watching freedom enthusiasts trying to twist their thoughts into pretzels to make it look like more choice is actually anti freedom.
Surprised to see that it is available in all regions. Good for those who want it.
About bloody time - now bering it back to macOS (considering early OS X had it then they removed it and hid changing the default browser inside Safari, changing default mail inside Apple Mail, etc). This kind of manipulative app forcing is Microsoft crap that Apple is better than. Never thought we'd see it in iOS though!
I want Waze. You can delete Apple Maps, but then when you click and address it just takes you to the app store to download Apple Maps.
Spend a little more and get a decent Android device. Samsung Tab S8 and Galaxy S24+ both feel as fast (if not faster due to better high refresh screens) than Apple.
Curious where you'd use a music default? Clicking an email address needs to know which mail client to open. Clicking a physical address needs to know which map software to open. Where do you click a song that isn't already hosted somewhere?
I would also like to to see "Reminders" have a default app choice. I use Things 3, and would love to natively have Siri work with this without weird workarounds.
If they aren't tech savvy, they also won't be going through the steps to replace any default apps
i.e. nothing to worry about here
Google Mail ask and provides an option to change the default browser.
A malicious app can do the same thing.
If folks can't choose which browser they want (or simply pick the default), I would question their capabilities as a functioning adult in the year 2024
We need to stop acting like folks are living in the stone age with their iPhone and incapable of any basic reasoning unless Apple does it for them