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Apple's 'Find My iPhone' Web Maps for iCloud.com Beta Move from Google to Apple
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What lots of people (including me) would like is web access to Messages. It would be nice to be able to log onto iCloud.com and send messages.
I know right! Now we'll never find our iPhones
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Apple Maps is to Google Maps ... as Android is to iOS.
So some good competition isn't healthy? There is one major company doing it 'good enough'* and all the others should just not try too make something better?
* The new Google Maps is driving me nuts btw.
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No they're not. There pushed to a device and new devices don't get them as rorschach wants it. Just like me.
This is probably the most secure way, but I guess it's also the reason iMessage has so many bugs..
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Agreed. But it wouldn't hurt making a browser version. This way it could be more like a Facebook Chat / MSN competitor.
great now find my iPhone wont be able to find my iPhone
I like Apple Maps better, but this is still hilarious and deserves an upvote.
The current iPhone (not Yosemite) can use sms just fine, and though you can't see the indicator (like in iMessage), there are other alts like WhatsApp and LineChat that do the same as iMessage and they are multiplatform.
Similarly, Spotify (and many others) offers Music Subscription in iPhone until Apple release their own (more likely integrating they Beat Music to Music App)
You can use Google apps and services just fine with iPhone. Their apps/services do not tie to Android exclusively. In fact, they feels much better when used in iPhone.
iOS 7 grows on me and many people. It's all a matter of personal taste. What is more important is how responsive the OS is. A UI appearance can be changed easily if they wanted to, but the underlying efficient software is hard to change. Comparing to Android day to day usage, iOS smoothness make a huge different due it's intimate integration with hardware and the clean coding behind it. if Android is all about choices and changes, iOS is about solid and steady.
What's the point if "your version" isn't even to the level of what existed 10 years ago? The automotive industry in the Soviet Union is hardly a good model to follow.
I don't get all this talk of how ios is so much smoother than android. maybe 3 or 4 years ago absolutely. Android is very responsive now so I'm tired of that argument. Ya I've heard that developing for apple is easier and the code is nicer for developers but none developer users like myself don't care. For us its the user experience, features, quality of hardware and value/price.
That photo is obviously from Germany. And German cars are some of the best in the world, so there goes your analogy.
Not really. The Trabant -produced in East Germany, which was part of the Soviet zone- had poor performance and was built around an outdated and inefficient engine, among other things. My analogy still stands.
Well, Google Maps on iOS has poor performance (compared to Apple Maps) and is built around an outdated and inefficient engine.
Sure, Google's data is better, but that doesn't mean other companies shouldn't try to create competing implementations.
If anything, competition keeps Google from getting complacent. If they were the only Maps app & SDK in the market, where would be the incentive for Google to keep improving?
Only having one option for Maps sounds a bit Soviet to me.
"Though the public version of iCloud.com is still pulling data from Google Maps"
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I never know that...
And everyone thinks Apple is doing good... Siri is pulling from bing in the results behind the scenes.
Kinda makes you wonder why Apple does this if they can't even data themselves..
This does makes Apple services less interesting after all when u now the nitty gritty.
Wouldn't you actually want Apple to have map data ??, your using their app after all.. Why would they have to pull from Google, when Apple *thinks* their map app is more accurate. anyway ?
You have have app, develop the background stuff yourself, and don't steal from Google.
A company like Apple can do this ... Obviously, users don't care where data comes from these days..
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I never know that...
And everyone thinks Apple is doing good... Siri is pulling from bing in the results behind the scenes.
Kinda makes you wonder why Apple does this if they can't even data themselves..
This does makes Apple services less interesting after all when u now the nitty gritty.
Wouldn't you actually want Apple to have map data ??, your using their app after all.. Why would they have to pull from Google, when Apple *thinks* their map app is more accurate. anyway ?
You have have app, develop the background stuff yourself, and don't steal from Google.
A company like Apple can do this ... Obviously, users don't care where data comes from these days..
Apple could have build their own map app but kept the accurate mapping data that Google uses.
No I mean iMessages. Yes they are on iCloud servers, but they don't sync like Contacts or Calendars or Reminders.
I.e., if I have my iPhone with all my iMessage conversations and I get a brand new computer, even if I log in to iCloud on it, if I open the Messages app none of my messages/conversations will be there. They'll only start showing up from that point on.