[grok29]

Silently? It was announced and loudly advertised as a new feature of iOS 17. They showed it on stage in their keynote, put it on their website, in press releases, and put it in the release notes of the specific release.

It's hard to know how much less silent this could have been.

It's also hard to know how Apple adding features to the OS can be considered either greedy or a 'breach'.

> but I feel like I am nearing my limits

For them adding nice new functionality they promised to the device?

[jotux]

I have a work iphone and I pay no attention to apple press releases. I let the phone update and the app just showed up on the homescreen for the phone. I had no idea what is was. I suspect that maybe there are a significant number of people just like me that had the app show up with no warning.

[smoldesu]

I think they're specifically mad about the app installing itself automatically. Free first-party content is fine, but preinstalling it for each user feels like borderline-promotion. Similar to the "generous" U2 giveaway that some of us still have as scars on our Apple Music library.

[grok29]

It didn’t install itself. It came as part of an OS release. Even Linus distros do that.

And promotion of what exactly? They announced that this would be a new feature of the OS.

The idea that they aren’t allowed to add apps with new releases makes no sense at all.

[smoldesu]

I have no dog in this fight. My $0.02 is that I prefer when all manufacturers (Apple, Android or otherwise) don't preinstall optional software, and let me install it myself if I want it. I empathize with the OP.

[grok29]

Dunno man - I just looked at your comments… Let’s just say it looks like you have a strong viewpoint about a certain company.

[_kwef]

So your only argument is to cherrypick some comments from the comment history of the person you're arguing with? Ad hominem..?