If Apple is so sure of their own product, allow us choose a default app and let the data speak for itself. Imagine being on Windows and not being able to choose your own default browser, or email client. Apple made their bed, now they can sleep in it.
I agree with you. Apple did this to themselves. The sad thing is, Apple don't make great software anymore. It can't stand on its own. They're so slow to do anything, and even when they take their time we get half-baked results like Apple Intelligence, Vision Pro, and in a software sense, look at Mail and Messages. They're wildly behind third party apps. It's such a shame.
It's a valid point. I'd suggest, if you could do some sort of sub-heading (I've seen sites with a secondary line under the main title on articles), so the main title still says:
Good point. I suspect the other win, though, for being able to set a default, is (will be) being able to ask Siri for directions and getting them in Google Maps/etc.
You've always had choice. You don't like what Apple is offering then move to Android.
Apple have to be behind third party applications.
Imagine willingly being on iOS and then complaining you can't do something because of the rules imposed on that os. Rules that you fully understood and accepted when you bought the device.
I don’t know a way to stop that but I do use an extension called Map Redirect that directs those Google Maps links to Apple Maps. It’s seamless. Just goes straight to Apple Maps instead.
Definitely not my experience. Google is great at search but the navigation is just not as good. It often leads me to the wrong place. Sure it’ll get me close but not actually there. Never had that happen with Apple Maps in my travels.
Same experience in Colorado, Alaska, Hawai’i, Florida, Washington, Virginia, Pretty much all over the US. It’s just more up to date and has better navigation.It goes where I would normally have gone naturally instead of side streets to try and save 30 sec and often makes it take longer.
Because Googles navigation leads many of us astray to try and save time, it’s just not that good. It literally almost got me lost in the wilds of Alaska. Apple Maps got us back on track.
Yeah, let apple sleep in their bed. It's no skin off my back, except that ios is fractured. Microsoft back in the day was a software company and did not sell computers, so Windows was built differently from the get go.
100% they are free to do what they want where product regulation is not strangling.
That's what posters on MR keep saying.
Valid point. Apple's goal isn't to give you the most powerful, featured, techy app for task XYZ, their goal is to give you a basic app that's easy to use, that will suit the needs of perhaps 2/3rds of their users, for doing XYZ. This leaves ample room for 3rd party developers to develop those more powerful apps, for users desiring more, and also keeps Apple mostly from stepping on developers' toes.
We still haven't been able to get a substantial portion of the websites in the world to stop admonishing the user that "you'll need to install Adobe Acrobat to use this PDF file", while macOS has had Preview for over 20 years.
I did not know this was a thing - thank you.
Firefox can read, and occasionally edit, some PDF files now.
I used Waze because it showed me delays, such as trains and accidents ahead, but the suggestions to make me wait in traffic jams drove me away.
