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iOS 14 Will Let You Change Your Default Email and Web Browser Apps (9to5mac.com) 19

Posted by BeauHD from the it's-about-time dept.
One of the new features available in iOS 14 is the ability to switch default app preferences for the first time. 9to5Mac reports: Details are scarce currently, but one of the slides in the WWDC presentation featured a block that announced users will be able to change their default browser and default email app. This is a long-requested feature, as iOS 13 and prior versions of the operating system will always direct taps on links to Safari, and new emails start in Apple Mail. Default apps will be available with iOS 14 for iPhone and iPadOS 14 for iPad users. Other iOS 14 features include home screen widgets, a new Translate app, contextual Siri and much more.
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  • Wait, wasn't MS convicted for that very thing? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by BAReFO0t ( 6240524 ) on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:08PM (#60214906)

    Windows Phone always defaulting to IE. Windows not giving a choice which browser you want to use.

    How did Apple slip under that radar?
    "Not monopolistic enough" can't be it, with theri vendor lock-in walled garden.

    • Because their equipment is white.

    • Likely because of:
      1)in US: because currently there is a reduced focus on consumer rights in the US.
      2) in EU: Apple IOS device market share is actually fairly small compared to Android in most EU countries. It is definitely an important player in the markets, but less so than in the US.
      3)rest of the world: There are not really many other countries in the world with the habit of challenging big corporations over things like this. Only examples of such that come to mind are Australia and India, and I guess t

  • False advertising.. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by JediJorgie ( 700217 ) on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:14PM (#60214926)

    Yea, you can choose any browser you want as long as it is just a wrapper about Apple's rendering engine.

  • can you install firefox with the firefox engine?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by msauve ( 701917 )
      AFAIK, the only browsers Apple allows are based on Webkit (aka Safari). Anything else is outside the garden.

      Mother, did it need to be so high?

  • EU Anti-Trust is why this happened (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Required Snark ( 1702878 ) on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:26PM (#60214964)
    Apple did not do this out out a sense of fair play to their users, it only happened because of fines from the European Union. [businessinsider.com]

    Maybe if regulators in US started doing their jobs, rather then being lap dogs to Big Tech, users wouldn't be treated like farm animals. You are not a person with rights in the Big Tech ecology, you are a resource that generates income.

    Your smart phone is not meant for phone calls, pictures, email, Twitter or any other activity. It has only one purpose: to monetize you. It doesn't work for you, you work for it.

  • first thing I do is change my default email client to HEY.

  • Your Web Browser's Skin (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Cmdln Daco ( 1183119 ) on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:07PM (#60215252)

    Don't they really mean your web browser's default skin?

    It isn't like on Android where you can disable Chrome and use Firefox or Opera (or Chromium). Yer an Apple customer. You are 'assured' a uniform User Experience.

    • Don't they really mean your web browser's default skin?

      It isn't like on Android where you can disable Chrome and use Firefox or Opera (or Chromium). Yer an Apple customer. You are 'assured' a uniform User Experience.

      My guess (and it's only a guess) is that this is driven by security concerns. A browser is a fundamentally dangerous app, because its job is to load and execute code downloaded from random web sites. Safely sandboxing such a dangerous app is pretty hard, and iOS doesn't have a very good defense in depth story, doesn't have deep ability to protect itself.

      This is something that Android is actually very good at and, perhaps non-obviously, the reason Android has such great defense in depth and such strong ap

  • Wow (Score:4, Funny)

    by satanicat ( 239025 ) on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:29PM (#60215308)

    Not a mac user here, literally surprised this wasn't an option.

    I wonder, as a not stirring up shit Canadian, why people tolerate this and why it hasn't already made news.

  • On on hand, this is great news, for those who choose to move to this release.

    OTOH, it doesn't help me my my i-devices on 10.3.x. I'm sticking with 10.3.x, if I move forward, I loose my ability to run 30+ 32-bit apps (that will probably never be upgraded by their developer), many of which I paid for.

  • Get back to me when I can use the actual software I want on an iPhone, not, say, Safari skinned with Firefox or Chrome.
  • Great, now let me change the default map app to something besides crappy Apple Maps
  • What about being able to change the default music player? Would love the ability to use my bluetooth devices to automatically startup YouTube Music instead of Apple's music app. Even uninstalling the Apple Music app doesn't allow bluetooth to startup YouTube Music

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