Some really good changes coming for default apps on iOS in the EU.
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Some really good changes coming for default apps on iOS in the EU.
My realization in 2024 has been that the DMA fork of iOS is the best iPhone experience. We can finally use our phones like actual computers with more default apps and apps from external sources.
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John Gruberreplied to Federico Viticci :ticciseal: last edited by
@viticci I’m curious to hear which ways you feel your iOS devices can be used “like real computers”, or is that only in reference to setting more default apps?
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Federico Viticci :ticciseal:replied to John Gruber last edited by
@gruber Installing apps from non-App Store sources and changing defaults is certainly more like my Mac or PC. That's what I meant.
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John Gruberreplied to Federico Viticci :ticciseal: last edited by
@viticci I’d say running something like Keyboard Maestro is more like a real computer. Or, hear me out, if when a hardware keyboard is connected, you could Command-Tab between apps.
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@gruber @viticci “Now we’re just haggling over the price”.
You’re saying a similar thing but just have a differing degree. I tend to agree that iOS devices are at their best as “console” style electronics. But, as you’ve acknowledged, many people use these as their primary computer and this will likely grow. Given they’re de facto a common general computing platform the heightened interest and monopoly busting fits more along with standardizing how cars interoperate. There’s a public interest. -
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@gruber @viticci There’s been a determination by democratically elected governments that the public interest is best served by general purpose computer devices being open to, and to not disfavour, third party software. The particulars of the requirements are as Byzantine as one might expect. This whole thing stinks. But, to me, it is the teenage years where a maturing Apple faces the reality of being untrusted with much of citizen’s lives. I like their basket. But we can’t all share the same.
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@Gte @viticci I of course understand that direct democracy could never work, and thus we have representative democracy where, quite often, laws pass by duly elected/appointed officials which would not have majority support amongst the actual electorate.
But if you polled 1,000 random EU iPhone owners “Would you like to delete the Camera and/or Photos apps from your iPhone?” how many yeses do you expect to get? 1? 2?
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@gruber Computer nerds are notoriously and chronically incapable of understanding what normal people want from computers.