One of the novelties that came with iOS 9 is an application that helps us to read news in a similar way to what Flipboard or an RSS reader does. We are many users who like the News app (I suppose it will be called News when it officially arrives in our area), but there are also many others who would prefer it not to come installed by default, which makes it end up in the folder of applications that are useless on an iPhone such as applications from Bag or FaceTime and Contacts, both available from the Phone app.
Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of software, explained in a CNN interview why they decided to leave the app installed by default. Surely your explanation is useless for those users who would rather not have it installed, but Apple is a company with strong convictions and does not usually look the other way when they believe that something is the right thing to do. Cue said the following:
We have only created apps that we think we all use every day. We wanted to create an application that users can use to read all the news - regardless of what everyone is interested in, regardless of the discussions and posts they want to follow - and is able to offer the same experience that I am used to. in our products; In a context where everything looks nice, it is very easy to read and the application also offers all the content available in the world.
If I have to be honest, I agree with Eddy Cue when he talks about the application, but I know that many users do not think the same, and more if we take into account that not yet available in our country if we don't do the trick of setting up our zone in the United States. Anyway, and I think we will all agree on this, I disagree in the decision to leave it installed. I think it would be best to make it optional even if it was proposed to us every time we look at news applications in the App Store. I think Apple is wrong here.
Hi, Pablo,
Various comments:
1-. Definitely one should be able to delete the native applications, although it has already been explained that eliminating them would bring problems between third-party applications that communicate with each other with the native ones to obtain some data. Example: Fantastical and Reminders.
two-. Perhaps for you the Stock Market, Contacts and Facetime are not necessary and important but they are useful applications for many people. On several occasions I have read you and you show that as something is not useful for you, you define it as unnecessary. It does not seem right.
Greetings.
Hi David. I quote:
«But there are also Many others they would rather it not come installed by default, which makes it end up in the folder of applications that are useless on an iPhone such as the Stock Market or FaceTime and Contacts applications, both available from the Phone application. "
I say that there are also "many other" users who would prefer that they not come installed, which makes them end up in a folder of applications that are useless. I am not speaking for myself, if not for all those people who create a folder for these types of applications. I don't have that folder, I put each application in yours, I use it more or less. I have read about that folder to many people in different media.
A greeting.
ALL the apps (except for those that if we use all of them, such as the calendar, clock, etc), should be optional. I understand that for many the stock market app is not necessary and it does not have to have an app that they will never use taking up space, but I also understand those who do use it on a daily basis. For this reason, I consider the fairest thing to be that all these apps should be optional and those who want to install them just have to go to the appstore and download it, period. With this option, no one would have any problem or complaint, not those who do not use X app, nor those who do.
I love Apple that is why I continue to consume their products. But it tires me a little that I relegate to Latin America your living in Uruguay and here we do not have the possibility of consuming Apple Music, buying music or other audiovisual content. This sometimes makes me think about stopping being so brand blind and changing. But I think of android and I get a cold sweat haha. Greetings