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Not only are Apple's services bad, they've becoming inescapable. It's rumored that they'll add ads to maps as soon as next year. Music.app is simply an ad for
by cdrnsf 9mo ago
Not only are Apple's services bad, they've becoming inescapable. It's rumored that they'll add ads to maps as soon as next year.
Music.app is simply an ad for Apple Music, Books.app is like reading in a Barnes and Noble while someone from marketing looks over your shoulder and their TV app features their own shows to an overbearing degree — everything else is becoming more of an afterthought.
- whywhywhywhy 9mo ago> Music.app is simply an ad for Apple Music, If you use iTunes Match or load your own MP3s every time you open the app the search field is set to “Apple Music” and the search fails until you toggle it, every time. Been like that for 2+ years
- trinix912 9mo agoIt’s been like that ever since Apple Music became a thing. I remember fiddling with this on an iPhone 6.
- eigencoder 9mo agoBuried in settings there's a way to turn off Apple Music (the subscription) and limit to only your own mp3s. I tried to run both my music library and Apple Music subscription together, but found that when I let my subscription lapse, all my playlists got deleted, even the ones that just used my own music. Now I'm staying FAR away from apple music the subscription.
- TheDong 9mo ago> inescapable. It's rumored that they'll add ads to maps If you move to the EU you can change the default navigation app on iOS and never see apple maps. A plan to display ads would explain why they region locked that setting.
- cdrnsf 9mo agoI'd much prefer the EU to the current situation in the US, but it's not in the cards at the moment.
- asdff 9mo agoYou can remove the maps app in the US too.
- lern_too_spel 9mo agoYou can remove the default navigation app, but you can't set the default navigation app to something else. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/MapKit/preparing-your-app-to-be-the-default-navigation-app https://developer.apple.com/documentation/MapKit/preparing-y...
- drnick1 9mo ago> Not only are Apple's services bad, they've becoming inescapable. As long as you decide to stay in Apple's jail. Next time you need or want a new phone, buy a Pixel 9a for $399 on sale, flash Graphene, and you can be 100% Apple and Google free. It's even better when paired with FOSS apps only like Nextcloud and Home Assistant.
- cdrnsf 9mo agoMy family has made it clear that I need to be available on iMessage or I'd be right there with you.
- drnick1 9mo agoiPhones default to sending plain old texts to non-Apple devices so it's hardly an issue unless you don't have a phone number.
- TheDong 9mo agoiMessage and RCS have some very different affordances, and apple keeps it that way to keep people walled into the system. Most notably, a single non-iMessage member in a group chat will degrade the experience for everyone significantly. It's very much an issue in the US.
- drnick1 9mo agoThen use a vendor-agnostic platform instead for group chats like Signal or Matrix.
- dodos 9mo agoIt would be great if people actually did this, but in the US that is not the case. There are only so many people you can convince to move off of their main platform, and usually you have to meet people where they are.