<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_ph_</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; 1: Enable users to set default app preferences.&lt;p&gt;Fine, but really Maps and Email is pretty much the only one I care about. This is the best suggestion of the bunch.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That is what you care about, others might care about other default apps. That&amp;#x27;s why it should be freely configurable.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; 3: Allow sideloading of iOS apps.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think we have a problem with lack of iOS apps. In fact I wish App Store Review was stricter and took more issue with quality and dodgy business practices (i.e. excessive and addictive use of IAP).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course there is a scarcity of iOS apps. Specifically, a scarcity of good quality apps which introduce new capabilities. There is no scarcity of candy crush clones etc. But the way Apple handles the App Store, drives developers into developing me-too clones with in-app purchases.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; 4: Give third-party developers equal access to APIs.&lt;p&gt;What this is asking for is for Apple to effectively release features later or not at all. Or have some even more draconian App Store rules. I don&amp;#x27;t want every random app having full hardware access to spy on me as it pleases.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;There might be a few APIs, where limiting public access is justified. In most cases, we are talking about access to useful and uncritical APIs. The more Apple limits access to these APIs, the more harm they do to the App eco system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gampleman</author><text>As a consumer of Apple products I am not too keen on any of these suggestions. I agree that developers for Apple&amp;#x27;s platforms would like these and perhaps there is some trickle-down effect for consumers.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 1: Enable users to set default app preferences.&lt;p&gt;Fine, but really Maps and Email is pretty much the only one I care about. This is the best suggestion of the bunch.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 2: Open up alternate payment mechanisms… without the Apple tax.&lt;p&gt;Nah. Last thing I want is to have to fill out my credit card information in every app and worry about what&amp;#x27;s going to happen with it. Apple Pay and IAP work perfectly adequately from the consumer standpoint.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 3: Allow sideloading of iOS apps.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think we have a problem with lack of iOS apps. In fact I wish App Store Review was stricter and took more issue with quality and dodgy business practices (i.e. excessive and addictive use of IAP).&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 4: Give third-party developers equal access to APIs.&lt;p&gt;What this is asking for is for Apple to effectively release features later or not at all. Or have some even more draconian App Store rules. I don&amp;#x27;t want every random app having full hardware access to spy on me as it pleases.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 5: Stop sherlocking third-party developers.&lt;p&gt;Right, so Apple is not supposed to give me free access to nice features so I can continue to pay money to someone else. Right.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations</title><url>https://astropad.com/dear-apple/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ratww</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Fine, but really Maps and Email is pretty much the only one I care about. This is the best suggestion of the bunch.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think this is already possible to a certain extent by using URL protocol handlers (like mailto, rss+feed, magnet, etc), however Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t provide a centralised control panel to choose which app. It would be cool to see Apple add that to the operating system. Ironically they would have to Sherlock RCDefaultApp. :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>gampleman</author><text>As a consumer of Apple products I am not too keen on any of these suggestions. I agree that developers for Apple&amp;#x27;s platforms would like these and perhaps there is some trickle-down effect for consumers.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 1: Enable users to set default app preferences.&lt;p&gt;Fine, but really Maps and Email is pretty much the only one I care about. This is the best suggestion of the bunch.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 2: Open up alternate payment mechanisms… without the Apple tax.&lt;p&gt;Nah. Last thing I want is to have to fill out my credit card information in every app and worry about what&amp;#x27;s going to happen with it. Apple Pay and IAP work perfectly adequately from the consumer standpoint.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 3: Allow sideloading of iOS apps.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think we have a problem with lack of iOS apps. In fact I wish App Store Review was stricter and took more issue with quality and dodgy business practices (i.e. excessive and addictive use of IAP).&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 4: Give third-party developers equal access to APIs.&lt;p&gt;What this is asking for is for Apple to effectively release features later or not at all. Or have some even more draconian App Store rules. I don&amp;#x27;t want every random app having full hardware access to spy on me as it pleases.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 5: Stop sherlocking third-party developers.&lt;p&gt;Right, so Apple is not supposed to give me free access to nice features so I can continue to pay money to someone else. Right.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations</title><url>https://astropad.com/dear-apple/</url></story>