John Paczkowski, from BuzzFeed, chatted for 20 minutes with Tim Cook on a recent visit to New York while he headed to the famous Fifth Avenue store. Apple's CEO, incidentally, said he loves making these surprise visits to Ma stores whenever he is traveling.
Paczkowski and Cook talked about the “E a Siri” feature and how it does not compromise the company's privacy policy, 3D Touch (for Cook, the new feature allows users to be much more productive), as the company on guard its innovations for future releases (the Apple CEO said his team doesn’t look at a technology and says “we’ll leave that for next year”), the new iPhones upgrade program (for now only available in the U.S.) and the it was ps-PC (as some people no longer feel the need to have computers, just tablets).
But the highlight of the conversation was, without a doubt, Paczkowski's question about users not being able to erase some native apps that they don't use, an old discussion but that turns and moves back up.
Here is Cook's answer:
This is a more complex issue than it seems at first. There are some apps that are linked to something else on the iPhone. If they are removed, they can cause problems elsewhere on the phone. There are other applications that are not so. So, over time, I think with those who are not, we will find a way (that you can remove them). () We want to get hold of your property; we have no motivation for that. We want you to be happy. So I recognize that some people want to do this, and something that we are exploring.
That is, my friends: it is possible that in the future we can finally get rid of some native apps!
If Apple requires that the user always have a standard application to replace those considered essential, I think everything would work well. For example: you could only delete Mail if you set up another app of its kind to be your default email client. In some cases this would still cause some problems, indeed. Speaking of Safari, when replacing it with Chrome and deleting it, some parts of the system (such as sending a link received in Messages to the Reading List) would be broken inside iOS. You would also need to delete all of these features from the app, something that is definitely not simple but not impossible.
Let's hope that Apple can solve this in some way.
(via The Verge)