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Or maybe Apple should add it to System Settings so that each and every app doesn't need to reinvent the wheel?
by Liquid_Fire 3y ago
Or maybe Apple should add it to System Settings so that each and every app doesn't need to reinvent the wheel?
- detourdog 3y agoThis is such a nitpick as to be laughable. What is the big deal with whatever email application having a checkbox to make it default.
- quitit 3y agoThe whole thread is pedantic HN nonsense. They want to paint it like it's anti competitive or some dark pattern as if the consumer's choice to buy an apple computer was not influenced by the software that it comes with. For a lot of users changing email settings from the email app's settings makes the most sense, going to the system settings to change email isn't their first thought. In a similar thought, a mac user goes to the Finder to change default apps for file associations. So the thinking here by some users is that this should also be moved to the system settings? While I can see both sides of having it in one place or another. I also see the value of not putting the same setting in many different places. I also think there is value in simplifying the system preferences and that it's pedantic to argue that it must be one place or another.
- detourdog 3y agoThat is one thought, another thought is that when one configures the email application one should just check a box to make it default. I think the current method makes more sense. I have no objection to Apple also implementing in system settings but who cares.