European iPhones are extra enjoyable now

Whining about stuff is a treasured American pastime, so enable me to indulge: the iPhone is extra enjoyable in Europe now, and it’s not truthful.

They’re getting all types of stuff as a result of they’ve cool regulators, not like, common regulators. Third-party app shops, the flexibility for browsers to run their very own engines, Fortnite, and now the flexibility to change plenty of default apps? I would like it, too! Think about if Chrome on iOS wasn’t only a rinky dink little Safari emulator! Think about downloading a brand new dialer app with a soundboard of fart sounds and setting it as your default! Sadly, Apple doesn’t appear concerned about sharing these potentialities with everybody.

However exterior of emulators and its begrudging adoption of RCS, Apple solely appears concerned about doing the naked minimal to maintain regulators off its again. It’s beginning to seem like the corporate sells two completely different iPhones: one for folks in Europe, and one that everybody else can purchase. That’s bizarre, particularly since preserving issues easy and constant is kind of Apple’s factor. However the firm is so dedicated to preserving the 2 separate that it received’t even allow you to replace apps from third-party app shops if you happen to depart the EU for greater than a month.

Right here’s the factor: wouldn’t it simply be good enterprise to supply everybody the identical decisions regardless of the place they stay? It’s not as if Apple was making two completely different iPhones to attempt to attraction to completely different cultural preferences. It’s making one iPhone that’s extra versatile and customizable, and one which isn’t.

Possibly, little by little, Apple will collapse and provide parity the best way it did with emulators. However suppose the corporate ought to make an uncharacteristic transfer: drop the charade and let everybody, in every single place have the identical iPhone. It will be daring! Brave, even! However most significantly, it could be much more enjoyable.