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Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals

• aurizon 7y ago
  Ah, A fee charging opportunity, and we lose them for life...
  • sli 7y ago
    They certainly have no plans to charge me a fee to use a third-party keyboard. This won't be any different.
    • aurizon 7y ago
      I am sure they would if they could, they are Apple, after all...
• dkdk8283 7y ago
  I absolutely support this. I use iOS Firefox, Google maps, etc. It’s really hard to break away from Safari and Apple Maps when automatically following links.
• nickm12 7y ago
  I abandoned iOS when Apple made the decision to limit the programming languages you could use to write apps in (the infamous "section 3.3.1" change in 2010 that was quickly backtracked). That was probably the high water mark for control over the platform. Since then they have opened up the platform in various way, such as adding app extensions in 2014, but the rate is excruciatingly slow. Here it is 2020 and Apple is still "considering" whether to allow users to select a default web browser or mail client? Obviously this hasn't hurt them in the market, but personally I have no interest in a computing platform that works against its users like this.
• eddhead 7y ago
  They have no basis to call anything Pro or even a "Smart" device without this fundamental feature