iPhones in the EU get ability to set more default apps, delete more built-in ones

kyub , 2 hours ago

AFAIK, browser choice is still limited (as usual with Apple) because every browser on iOS needs to use Apple’s WebKit engine. That means they only differ in UI.

M500 , 2 hours ago

Not in the EU.

ByteMe , 1 hour ago

Even though that’s true, I think no one has made their engine for iOS yet.

Estebiu , 1 hour ago

yeah, its such a small market that it isnt really viable.

30p87 , 2 hours ago

Who knows, maybe one day you can run actual Firefox on them too? :p

You could, in the EU. But as the EU is only a small portion of the market (Apple did not succeed as much with brainwashing here), Mozilla said it would be too costly to literally recreate FF from scratch for iOS, only for the EU market.

lemmyvore , 1 hour ago

You know, I hadn’t realized this before. Thanks to Apple’s decade-long policy, alternative browsers for iOS literally don’t exist, they’ll have to be ported. It will take years for that to happen, if anybody even bothers. Well, Google will.

And that’s how Apple will have managed to shoot themselves in the foot and have iOS fall under Chrome domination too.

At this point if they were smart they would sponsor the ports of alternative browsers that are not Chrome, but I doubt they have it in them.

LodeMike , 2 hours ago

Ah… Yet another half-assed middle finger from Apple. What a truly dogshit company.

Gingerlegs , 4 hours ago

I’d love to be able to delete iTunes from the Apple TV OS. How long has that been?

acosmichippo , 2 hours ago

itunes has been gone for like 5 years.