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Re:Apple's best product is now privacy by scarface74 on Friday September 14, 2018 @10:43PM (#17992678)
Blame that on Google. If you use Chrome on iOS, they already give you a choice of which maps app to use and which mail client to use. There is no reason they couldn’t give you the choice of how to handle Tel links.

If Google wanted to since they already have all of the apps, you could completely stay in the Google ecosystem on iOS - Browser, mail client, google voice, etc.

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Re:Apple's best product is now privacy by lern_too_spel on Friday September 14, 2018 @11:54PM (#17992898)
I should be able to do it from any app as I stated earlier (not just Google's) just as I can on Android.
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Re:Apple's best product is now privacy by scarface74 on Saturday September 15, 2018 @12:18AM (#17992958)
And have all of the security issues that go along with it....

https://gkbrk.com/2017/05/android-dialer-packets/

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Re:Apple's best product is now privacy by lern_too_spel on Saturday September 15, 2018 @01:00AM (#17993057)
You're grasping for excuses. There are security issues with running any app on your phone. A maps app could do nefarious things with your location. A browser app could do nefarious things with your browse history. That doesn't mean Apple blocks all third party apps.

If I trust a phone app enough to use its dialer, I should be able to route all calls through it. If I trust a maps app enough to use it manually, I should be able to set it to open for all address links. It really is that simple.

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