I wish companies would pay some attention to RSS. It's viewed as somehow less than important than social media. But it's the only solution of its kind.
Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
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I totally agree that this is weird play, and I don't like OS vendors doing it. I'll add that while I personally prefer Android to iOS, Google implements similar behavior; clicking on a YouTube link launches the app by default, without asking the user. It's super annoying -- a web browser should never launch another app without at least consulting the user, but really, it probably shouldn't happen at all without the u…
At least Google Assistant allows me to navigate with a non-Google Maps app
Siri does too now, but you can’t set a non-Apple default. Have to specify “give me directions using google maps” each time.
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It hasn’t been around too long. In a few years it’ll probably be pretty competent at what it does. I don’t use it but that was certainly the trend with Apple Maps which was pretty crummy when it first came out.
Apple Maps is still pretty far behind Google Maps. I don't have high hopes for News, given how much it keeps pushing features that are either user-unfriendly (giant ads in the middle of articles) or designed solely to push you to News+ I used to be a regular (many times a day) user and their changes have led me to stop using it entirely.
> Apple Maps is still pretty far behind Google Maps.
Depends where you are, the Apple version of street view is far superior to Google’s.
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Apple Maps is still pretty far behind Google Maps. I don't have high hopes for News, given how much it keeps pushing features that are either user-unfriendly (giant ads in the middle of articles) or designed solely to push you to News+ I used to be a regular (many times a day) user and their changes have led me to stop using it entirely.
> Apple Maps is still pretty far behind Google Maps. Depends where you are, the Apple version of street view is far superior to Google’s.
Anywhere other than a few major cities?
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It asks first time - do you want to open it and should it remember your choice. Later you can set default in android settings or remove the yt app default setting. It's buried in there somewhere.
Yup, and it's also something that all apps can request, and the user is always asked for their preference until they say 'don't ask again'.
There really needs to be an always ask next to don’t ask again.
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#96The comments on the quoted OSX Daily article suggest that News hasn’t supported RSS since at least 2017, so not sure why this is news now.
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#97I'm not surprised to hear this considering what an out-of-gate unquestionable home run Apple News has been.I mean, it's been such monster success that Apple knows even its dumpster fire of a UX and god awful search functionality aren't enough to keep away the literal dozens of users it has. With no where else to turn for news the Apple faithful will just have to accept that Apple's decision to not support RSS really is the best decision for everyone one involved. I for one welcome this brave new RSS-less future!
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Yup, and it's also something that all apps can request, and the user is always asked for their preference until they say 'don't ask again'.
There really needs to be an always ask next to don’t ask again.
Why? Unless you check "don't ask again" it will always ask...
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If you are in an iMessage group chat and you switch to Android, you need to create a new group chat to continue talking to your friends.
This function even harms iOS only groupchats. I walk to an area of low reception and try and message the group chat, it defaults as an sms due to the poor signal and breaks the group in the same way. Not sure what advantages an imessage vs sms groupchat even give me in this era of unlimited texting. Pretty hearts?
Falling back to SMS is an option in Settings. I personally have it disabled - when disabled, it spends longer trying to resend the iMessage rather than sending an SMS rather quickly.
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#100More people spend time worrying about the decline of RSS than the amount of people actually using RSS.
The decline of RSS has ruined the internet for me. I’m not being hyperbolic either. RSS effectively died and has been replaced with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram feeds. Even if RSS still technical exists for some content, it’s not the same. What was great about RSS is it was pure. If content creators and publishers wanted to put ads in the feed they could and you knew you were directly supporting them. We didn’t h…
I consume most content via RSS. It certainly doesn’t feel dead to me.
There are ways to get Facebook, Instagram and Twitter content into RSS too if that’s what you need.