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Ok, I get that. That's simply Apple not giving the option to set the preference in the first place. But I would argue that's a different thing than giving a use
by zuhsetaqi 3y ago
Ok, I get that. That's simply Apple not giving the option to set the preference in the first place. But I would argue that's a different thing than giving a user the option to set a default app and then ignoring it or reseting it automatically. When I change my browser or mail app on macOS or iOS it's stays like that.
> When I click on an address in FB Messenger, I get the “open in google maps or Apple Maps” prompt, but choosing Google Maps just takes me to the Google Maps App Store page, even though I have the app installed and updated.
Is it possible that this is only the case on FB Messenger? I think there are other Apps offering this option where it does work.
- gcr 3y agoDoorDash opens google maps by default even though I prefer Apple Maps. This is almost certainly a bug in Messenger.
- tomhallett 3y agoWhile I agree there is a bit of difference, it's somewhat inconsequential to the end user having their preferences respected: * Microsoft: we will let you set a preference, but we will ignore/reset it * Apple: we won't let you set a preference at all If someone wanted to say "Microsoft and Apple don't care about your preferences, but Microsoft is slightly worse", I think that'd be a fair thing to say. Agreed that apple's is a lack of a feature, BUT if you look at the features which apple does support, it feels closer to they don't want to add it for anti-competitve reasons, and not a technical/implementation reason * ios apps can be deep linked via "apple-app-site-association" * ios apps can have custom url schemes "comgooglemaps://?parameters" * android has had "intents" for a very long time * ios sms is already detecting "this is an address" from free text and is hot linking it to their maps app