New iOS features you're not getting because you're outside the EU

It takes extra effort to make these features be unavailable outside the EU, so this is active malice, not laziness or anything like that.

Apple are so obsessed with anti-competitive lock-in that they are willing to spend resources on doing it on the region basis. It's already some insanity level of obsession and just highlights what kind of control obsessed freaks are running the company.

Google is already rolling out a dark pattern to try and get users to switch to Chrome. If you try to open a link in Google Maps on iOS, instead of directly opening in your default browser, they present a large menu for which browser to open in with Chrome at the top, Google second, then Safari, and finally a generic “your default browser”. It is sized to hide the switch (default ON) that says, “Ask me which app to use every time” at the bottom which itself is in a lighter font color to make it less visible. Since it doesn’t use the native share UI, it’s also less obvious that you should scroll to find that option to turn off this new behavior. I like that the EU has forced Apple to open up its ecosystem, but the result of that is now everyone is going to start putting in dark patterns that were not allowed before.

oh look, it’s a government getting involved with big tech and improving the lives of its citizens. Funny how the just let the market decide folk suddenly go quiet on threads like this.

Is there some way to re-home my iPhone to the EU to get this stuff, without actually moving there?

&gt; Third-party app stores<p>I wonder if we&#x27;ll finally get UTM on the ipad without jailbreaks and weird stuff.<p>Being able to run a small virtual machine on my ipad would really be a game changer.