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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When can I get an iPhone without iMessage being preinstalled? Microsoft is, if anything, late to the party on this kind of anti-user BS.

[–] Saneless 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or any of the i shit on there. And can you still not even change the default app for some things?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last I checked, opening links in iOS with alternate browsers is very app-specific and requires a hack using a different protocol. E.g. Chrome registers itself as a handler for the "httpChrome" protocol and the app needs to do Open("httpChrome://lemmy.ml"). It's far worse than anything Microsoft did with IE back when they got sued.

[–] Saneless 1 points 1 year ago

Ew. I had an iphone for a year and I couldn't handle it

[–] Dark_Blade 4 points 1 year ago

Microsoft is, if anything, late to the party on this kind of anti-user BS.

…do you not know about the IE lawsuits?

[–] zikk_transport2 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iPhone without iMessage being preinstalled?

Someone wants a choice, yet chooses platform that does not provide a choice? Wondering if there is any other platform that allows you to customize your phone. Hmmm. 🤔🤔🤔

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hooooooold on, let me be crystal clear: I'm never buying an iPhone.

The point was that if the EU is going to go on an anti-bundling campaign, there's a long line ahead of MS Teams of more egregious behavior.

[–] Dark_Blade 0 points 1 year ago

…so you were talking about a phone you don’t use or plan on using, in a comparison against work software that you’re practically forced to use?