[Gracana]

The two-apps/choose-your-app problems are something that my mother has found very frustrating, and I haven't really been able to come up with a good solution for her. It bothers me as well, but I have enough experience with similar things to be able to deal with it. But for her, it's a bunch of new stuff that all conflicts and interoperates differently. It's a disaster.

[spinlock]

Yup. I just cycle through the choices trying a different one each time. Once I find myself using one _all the time_ I set that as the default.

I think a great solution for this would be to let power users distribute their own versions. That way, you could just find a designer you trust and install their version. It's still fragmented but at least you could go with people like the author who have thought through it rather than an awful corporate designed by committee mess.

[npsimons]

It's still fragmented but at least you could go with people like the author who have thought through it rather than an awful corporate designed by committee mess.

Some people would argue that's what Apple is doing with iOS. Not that I agree (I'd never trust Apple, and I don't think their offerings are superior in any way, shape or form), but there are those who believe it.

[smrtinsert]

This part is funny, app interoperability is a huge feature. Some people should just stay on iOS I guess. I love that I can click a link and have various ways of understanding or consuming it. I guess there needs to be some tweaking around how and when it saves preferences for these intents, but personally this is a big part of the reason I'm on Android.

[MBCook]

As an iOS user the concept is great and many people would LOVE something similar in the iOS world. It sounds like the implementation has some interface flaws that cause people problems.

The core idea that I should be able to choose what app to use to manage my photos seems self-evident.

[youngtaff]

Biggest issue I have with it is there's no way of saying "No I don't ever want to see this intent again" i.e. control the sharing options so I can see a subset

[Gracana]

It's not necessarily the interoperability that's the problem, it's just that sometimes she can't do things that seem sensible (like send a photo to the email app), and why are there two calendars and two galleries and whatnot? Choice can be good, but when there is initially little differentiation between options, making choices becomes a burden.