{"id":22226,"date":"2018-07-23T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22226"},"modified":"2018-07-23T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T20:12:06","slug":"apple-dont-default-on-default-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/23\/apple-dont-default-on-default-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple: Don&rsquo;t Default on Default Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3291618\/iphone-ipad\/apple-dont-default-on-default-apps.html\">Dan Moren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3291618\/iphone-ipad\/apple-dont-default-on-default-apps.html\"><p>For users, the benefits of choosing default apps is obvious. Right now if you tap a web link in most apps you get taken to Safari, regardless of whether you&rsquo;d rather use Chrome or Firefox. The same for mail links: if you&rsquo;d rather compose your messages in Outlook or Gmail, you have to jump through some hoops to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Developers who compete directly with Apple&rsquo;s built-in apps (like Mail, Safari, and Calendar) have always had an uphill battle ahead of them. How do you take on an app that&rsquo;s installed on every single iPhone for free? Especially when your app will always be a second-class citizen. Allowing users to choose their own default apps won&rsquo;t fix all of those problems, but it will go a ways toward making these apps viable for even more people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/customization-of-default-apps-on-ios\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/customization-of-default-apps-on-ios\/\">\n<p>Since you can now remove Mail, in particular, from iOS, this seems like it should be a natural next step. If you tap on a <code>mailto:<\/code> link without Mail being installed any more, you get an error message telling you that no apps are installed that can handle that type of link. But that&rsquo;s awkward, confusing, and only partially true &mdash; no apps are available because no other apps are <em>allowed<\/em> to register themselves as capable of handling <code>mailto:<\/code> links.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/27\/choosing-ios-default-apps\/\">Choosing iOS Default Apps<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Moren: For users, the benefits of choosing default apps is obvious. Right now if you tap a web link in most apps you get taken to Safari, regardless of whether you&rsquo;d rather use Chrome or Firefox. The same for mail links: if you&rsquo;d rather compose your messages in Outlook or Gmail, you have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-07-23T20:12:07Z","apple_news_api_id":"f23bd3ea-b64c-4a1a-b903-1cc84a1605a5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-07-23T20:12:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8jvT6rZMShq5AxzIShYFpQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31,1472],"class_list":["post-22226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ios","tag-ios-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22227,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22226\/revisions\/22227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}