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> Instead of thinking of this as "sherlocking" or "threatening",

Well the consumer has a clear loss here if they don’t extend the functionality to all apps, eg give them control over which links open which apps and ability to remove built in apps like safari, mail, the absolutely useless news app, etc.



According to some of the rumors from leaked code, Apple will offer setting default mail and browser apps, iirc.


How is News “absolutely useless.” Tens of millions of people would disagree.


Presumably you can ask them why they like it :)




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