Whining about stuff is a treasured American pastime, so enable me to indulge: the iPhone is extra enjoyable in Europe now, and it’s not truthful.
They’re getting every kind of stuff as a result of they’ve cool regulators, not like, common regulators. Third-party app shops, the flexibility for browsers to run their very own engines, Fortnite, and now the flexibility to exchange a number of default apps? I would like it, too! Think about if Chrome on iOS wasn’t only a rinky dink little Safari emulator! Think about downloading a brand new dialer app with a soundboard of fart sounds and setting it as your default! Sadly, Apple doesn’t appear all for sharing these prospects with everybody.
However exterior of emulators and its begrudging adoption of RCS, Apple solely appears all for doing the naked minimal to maintain regulators off its again. It’s beginning to appear like the corporate sells two completely different iPhones: one for folks in Europe, and one that everybody else should buy. That’s bizarre, particularly since holding issues easy and constant is kind of Apple’s factor. However the firm is so dedicated to holding the 2 separate that it gained’t even allow you to replace apps from third-party app shops in the event you depart the EU for greater than a month.
Right here’s the factor: wouldn’t it simply be good enterprise to supply everybody the identical selections irrespective of the place they stay? It’s not as if Apple was making two completely different iPhones to attempt to attraction to completely different cultural preferences. It’s making one iPhone that’s extra versatile and customizable, and one which isn’t.
Possibly, little by little, Apple will collapse and provide parity the best way it did with emulators. However suppose the corporate ought to make an uncharacteristic transfer: drop the charade and let everybody, in every single place have the identical iPhone. It could be daring! Brave, even! However most significantly, it might be much more enjoyable.
