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| How developers can offer alternatives to standard Apple apps |
The smartphone comes with a large number of standard applications. Once you have purchased the phone and turned it on, it is ready to use. These apps cover a variety of basic phone functions.
For example, Apple offers over 35 apps preconfigured on every iPhone or iPad sold. These apps include email management apps, web browser, weather, clock, camera, music player, etc.
Specifically, what makes these apps even more important on iOS is that they are by default and cannot be replaced by other apps that automatically perform the same task. Even if you download an app that can do the same thing, the Apple app will still be the phone's default app.
The developers have worked hard to fix this problem, especially since the apps that replace the default apps don't look very attractive. Just like the popular calculator app PCalc since 1992. However, the sales are not good because it was originally a calculator app and it was the latter.
Replace the default app
Usually, application developers face significant challenges when developing alternative applications to one of the standard applications. For the above reasons, mostly on Apple devices. However, some developers have managed to outpace Apple.
It does this by providing a better user experience and more features and functionality in the app which by default has the same key ideas as some of Apple's apps.
As James Thompson, developer of the PCalc app said above, as long as Apple apps are not suitable for all users, they will always be because some of them lack features and functionality while others are hard to find for normal use. user.
In recent years, important applications have emerged in various fields. Some are designed to replace standard apps like: B. Halide Photography app, which replaces the main camera app.
This application activates some functions and features that Apple does not have in its application, such as controlling professional photography settings.
The Halide app was only developed by two people, and according to its developers, the key to the app's success lies in offering the features that regular users interested in smartphone photography are looking for.
Another example is tasks. Thanks to him, users can manage their tasks and goals on their own. Just like the name, the app was created by developer Mostafa Youssef, who developed different needs when he found that Apple's Reminders app lacked many features by default.