![]() ![]() I paired them up with third party apps I am currently using and wanted to see how my experience differed for both overtime. But instead I decided to stick with the apps that I feel I use the most. Such as my podcast app of choice, calculator, books app, spreadsheet application, weather, and even my password manager. This could have been a really long post since I use a lot of third party apps that have a Apple stock app variant. For me, the benefits they allow (especially having web interfaces and working cross-platform) provide me value, but there is definitely a strong case to be made that it’s safest and cheapest to use stock apps unless you have a good reason not to do so. Look, my iPhone and iPad home screens are full of third party apps. What really stood out to me in both of these post was this: What ultimately led me to think about this was two posts written by Matt Bircher from titled The Value of Using Stock Apps, and then a follow up post titled, More on Stock Apps. With all that said, I wanted to give some of Apple’s stock apps another shot. ![]() ![]() And in some cases some apps do not get any updates for years, like how Reminders hadn’t changed for years until iOS 13. Their are outliers where Apple will drop a “.1” update providing new support to some or all of their apps, like cursor support, but it is rare. Apple is stuck with it’s yearly OS cycle meaning that some of these applications won’t get new features at a, minimum, yearly basis. The benefit of an App in the App Store being developed by a third party is that they can continually update the app as much as they want. When you have an App Store as robust as Apple’s though, especially for iOS and iPadOS, it is hard to stick with just using the first party apps provided - since some other version might provide a lot more features and polish. Having apps built-in to the system provides a variety of benefits like working with Siri natively, Handoff, integration with Shortcuts, and the mere fact that you won’t have to pay when the app is upgraded since it is apart of the operating system. I have always had a love/hate relationship with these apps. This trend didn’t change when Apple introduced the iPhone providing first party apps that still exist today. In previous versions of macOS and Mac OS X, Apple has included apps like Automator, TextEdit, and other utilities such as Terminal, Digital Color Meter, Grapher, etc. Apple has always provided some great apps as part of there operating system. ![]()
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