Apple planning default navigation app setting in iOS 18 for EU users

Re:Apple planning default navigation app setting in iOS 18 f... by magnio on Friday March 08, 2024 @03:25AM (#39639038)

> Apple also plans to introduce a new default control for users in Settings for navigation apps. Apple aims to make this solution available by March 2025.

> Apple will also add the ability to delete Safari from the iPhone in an update to iOS before the end of the year.

Man, sincerely wish Apple would make these changes available elsewhere. My whole family complains about how they cannot make Google Maps the default on iOS.

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Re:Apple planning default navigation app setting in iOS 18 f... by shiroiushi on Friday March 08, 2024 @04:10AM (#39639328)

If you care about choice, iOS isn't the OS for you.

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Re:Apple planning default navigation app setting in iOS 18 f... by hellweaver666 on Friday March 08, 2024 @03:51AM (#39639223)

What I don't get is why they don't just roll it out everywhere? Surely it's more hassle for them to maintain multiple versions of iOS with different features for different markets?

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Re:Apple planning default navigation app setting in iOS 18 f... by tety on Friday March 08, 2024 @04:21AM (#39639385)

Probably more about Safari than Maps

If they limit the market they disincentivize google and mozilla from investing in native iOS versions of their browsers

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Re:Apple planning default navigation app setting in iOS 18 f... by basisword on Friday March 08, 2024 @03:57AM (#39639251)

I think that illustrates how important they think being default is and how much they have to lose.

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Re:Apple planning default navigation app setting in iOS 18 f... by rahoulb on Friday March 08, 2024 @04:16AM (#39639363)

So they can whine about how regulation interferes with their ability to innovate

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Re:Apple planning default navigation app setting in iOS 18 f... by Yeri on Friday March 08, 2024 @03:57AM (#39639248)

More hassle, but that hassle is covered by extra $$$ from forcing people in their ecosystem.

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Re:Apple planning default navigation app setting in iOS 18 f... by asadotzler on Friday March 08, 2024 @08:18PM (#39648464)

Wishing for Apple to do something is misplaced. Wish for and vote for a government where you live that's as concerned with your software choices as the EU and EC and European courts are for their citizens.

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