If you don’t have Chrome installed, your links will get thrown out to Safari, but if you do have Chrome installed, anything you tap on in a Google app like Google , Gmail, Google Translate…a native YouTube app…perhaps an upcoming Maps app, all goes to Chrome. You get the picture.
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Rafer sez:
The picture is that Apple’s going to ban this sort of override from their store before long (and vice versa on Android, Amazon’s phone, etc.).
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Yeah - they certainly lock down the dialer. But URL schemes are open - they haven’t overridden dropbox yet. At some point this moves into the territory of MS-DOS & Explorer. It’ll be interesting to see where those lines get drawn, whether by Apple or DOJ.
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