If you believe these are core OS functions, and therefore not subject to competition, Microsoft has a old story to tell you about Internet Explorer web browser and Windows 95 OS.
But yes you can install a third party app like Google Voice with its own phone number and send text messages through it.
You would really trust any third party to intercept your sms messages?
On top of that, the third party dialer integrates with the native dialer and call history.
Not OP but I trust Thunderbird on my PC to access my emails so why I could not also trust a Mozilla or other trustworthy company to access my messages on my phone where in my case the SMS is used by companies to send me notifications about billing , I am the type of person that will call someone(people in my group don't send SMS)
I install any random crap on my phone and tablet because I know they can’t do too much damage between the better permission model and sandboxing.
And how say allowing a reviewed and sandboxed Firefox or a side loaded version that I would enable using some convoluted steps affects you personally? I don't demand Apple to make you less secure just want competition and no restriction, if I need say a power tool like a firewall or to run some custom scripts as root let me as a power user do that in a way you won't be affected - there must be such a solution because I do not see OSX user getting hacked left and right.
There is competition - you can choose the same mobile operating system that 85% of mobile users choose - Android.
there must be such a solution because I do not see OSX user getting hacked left and right.
A company you may have heard of corrupted user’s operating systems if they had system integrity protection turned off....
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262?hl=en
Or another “trustworthy” company installed a web server surreptitiously on users computers so even when they uninstalled the software, it reinstalled itself.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/articl...
Spotify - was complaining that there was no facility to integrate with Siri - Apple added intents in iOS 13.
Spotify also complained that they couldn’t do music streaming on watchOS - that was also added in the latest version of watchOS.
Spotify got access months alter after complaints to the EU were made so I am not convinced that Apple is still give equal opportunities to all developers especially when better browser engines exist and you can't use them.
Apple has a long history of developing functionality and using it internally before releasing them publicly. The alternative is releasing a half baked API that it has to support forever. It’s a lot easier to change an API that is only used internally than it is to change an API which people depend on.
Yes, Apple produced a better solution than allowing random third parties the ability to record everything you do on your phone. Would you prefer that they never increase privacy and security?
You owe me a new keyboard. Apple puts out half baked APIs constantly, and drops APIs constantly. Like literally, every release they do has APIs in those two camps.
Using this logic you should then ot have the freedom to read your emails outside Apple browser or email client on your computers, the solution is
1 let the user decide if the trusts the third party
2 for sensitive application like mail/sms/browsers review the top 5 alternative browsers/email clients etc and allow only those, I assume Apple has the ability to say discuss with Mozilla about allowing Firefox on iOS, what APIs and what privacy rules need to be respected and then have a team of lawyers ready if Mozilla breaches the contract/promises.
My point there are solutions between the extremes of not allow thrid party access and allow any random app access.
No one considers email to be secure because of if nothing else, the store and forward nature.
IMessage is end to end encrypted. Should Apple also allow third parties the ability to intercept iMessage or should they split iMessage from sms? Who does that benefit?
2. Now some developers are in a privileged position.