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Australian regulator calls for new competition laws for digital platforms (www.reuters.com)
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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (8 children)

The simplest solution would be to remove so called “core” apps from the OS.

Music, News, Podcasts, etc should all be stand alone apps that you download from the App Store and are updated separately to the OS.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Exactly most new features they release are not even os features just app updates.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    On the other hand I know people who will update their OS and not update any of their apps, until the app breaks because they didn’t update to something patched two years ago.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Isn’t automatic app updates turned on by default?

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I agree, but there's a slight issue... Those apps are front ends to API "kits", for example MusicKit exists as an API that many other apps utilize. Apple upgrades the Music app because it's upgrading MusicKit in the OS.

    The spirit of what you want though is still achievable...

    MusicKit is still something Apple upgrades as they have been, but the Music app should be required to be downloaded. They could have a Music icon which then takes you to a page allowing you to choose from a list of music apps. Once this is done the first time, it should just carry over to a new iOS or iPhone.

    Additionally, 3rd party apps which utilize the MusicKit API in a new beta OS should be allowed to install beta versions of their apps by detecting that a beta OS has been installed.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    I think it's funny how people that don't know Android will talk a lot of shit on Android. What you said here is one of Android's main features you could say. Google updates it's apps and some system apps separately outside of OS updates. Google also has it's apps on both mobile platforms. I have no idea why Apple over the years never figured out or leaned more in this direction. They are more than capable of having doing this. I think it's a bad look when regulation has to be done to try and fix these things. Apple has had a long time to have done these things on their own. Now they are being forced to do it and they are not happy about it even if it's good for the users.

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