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Apple is considering letting users change default email, browser, music apps in iOS:
Apple is seriously considering the possibility of allowing users to change the default apps for Web browsing, mail, or music on their iPhones. The company might also allow users to listen to Spotify or other music streaming services besides Apple Music via Siri on the iPhone or on the HomePod smart speaker.
These revelations were outlined in a report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman this morning, who cited multiple people familiar with Apple's internal plans.
[...] Currently, iOS users can download third-party applications for mail or Web browsing like Outlook or Firefox, but they cannot set them to be the default apps that the system opens when a link or email address is tapped in another application, for example. Apple does allow users to do these things in some cases with its macOS software for desktops and laptops, even though it's not possible on the company's mobile platforms.
[...] And as Bloomberg notes, more elegant support for streaming services besides Apple Music would almost certainly be a boon for sales of Apple's HomePod smart speaker, as that lack of flexibility is a major limitation for that product compared to its competitors. Yes, HomePod users can stream Spotify to the HomePod using Apple's AirPlay technology, but many users may feel that is not a complete solution.
[...] Bloomberg's sources were careful to clarify that no final decisions have been made yet, but given Apple's longstanding commitment to a different philosophy, the fact this change is being seriously considered at all is on its own a major development.
When it released iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 in 2019, Apple already began lifting some smaller limitations on how users could customize the mobile operating system. So if these changes for default apps do go forward, they could herald a dramatic shift in Apple's software strategy—whether they're made to make things better for users, to appease regulators, or both.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2020, @09:00PM (2 children)
"Instead of bullshit claims that I probably don't exist"
Oh you exist, I just don't put much stock in your honesty. You obviously don't understand how or why Linux has been subverted, or you're just another industry shill pushing the corporate status quo. From the general direction of your opinions I will go with the latter.
Even if you are real, and your anger towards FOSS is genuine, it is still misdirected and very much the desired result of M$ & Friends.
Yet with all your complaints you are happily going on about your iPhone, how shit Android is, and how any open phones are hot garbage. Maybe you abandoned linux out of laziness and never checked back in? Cause I can do just about anything I want with FOSS except play some video games.
Oh also, complaining about systemd is very in vogue, but you seem totally fine using Apple and Microsoft products? Hmmmmm. You're either a bit slow or justashill.
Do you even read what you write? Cause sounds like you're fine contradicting yourself and/or being lazy when you get to shovel the responsibility on to someone else.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Saturday February 22 2020, @09:44PM (1 child)
Too bad you're too stupid or lazy to check my old posts back on the green site before FOSS went all shitty.
But FOSS did go to shit, with everyone engaging in the "okay new I need to find yet another new distro" every once in a while. And people I installed linux for all dropping it because it didn't do everything they wanted - same as you:
See - FOSS doesn't even meet all your needs. Most people won't bother maintaining two operating systems, not when they can have just one that does everything they want it to? That's not being a shill - that's reality. Don't like it - fix it or STFU, because FOSS-only is broken for most people. Including you.
I don't use Microsoft products. What I am doing is looking for a replacement for this shitty Linux distro - I'll probably go full FreeBSD because it never gave me the hassles that the various Linux distros have done over the decades on a regular basis.
I was complaining about systemd on the green site long before it became popular to do so. I got dumped on A LOT by people like you because I refused to swallow the party line. I was in the minority then, but I was right. Reality didn't change, just people's perceptions. They could eventually admit that there was something wrong with part of Linux.
FOSS is not my circus any more, not my monkey, not my responsibility to fix. Not since it became obvious that the GPL is responsible for the dearth of decent 3rd-party software in the FOSS world in general and Linux in particular.
If it weren't for the GPL, much of the software available for other operating systems would also be available for Linux. Including games. Don't blame me - blame RMS.
As for the iPhone - it works better than my Android ever did, even though the iPhone is older. I was realistic enough to admit it. Same as I admitted that Linux isn't going anywhere for the end user and hasn't been for decades.
Don't like it? Fix it or STFU, but don't blame the messenger. It's not my fault Linux and FOSS suck for most people.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by acid andy on Sunday February 23 2020, @01:35AM
That's not unique to FOSS. Pick any OS, hell almost any product line, wait a couple of decades and there's a good chance it will have gone to shit or at least changed in some big ways that you don't like. That's life. At least with FOSS there's more scope to hack away what you don't like or it's free to switch.
If you're not running a console or Windows that's something historically you've had to live with. Proton's closed the gap a lot though. There are plenty of other games.
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