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Google Basically Wants Your iPhone 13 Home Screen to Look Like Android

The next thing you know, Google will be suggesting that iPhone users switch to an Android phone! The horror!
 
That's a no from me.

That being said, Google Drive is SO much better than iCloud Drive.

Why is it that 8 versions of iOS have come out since iCloud Drive was introduced, and I still can't download a whole folder of items at once?
 
I'm not a stickler for privacy, but there is no way that Google is getting their hands on my photos.
 
A friend of mine uses Google’s services instead of Apple’s. He switched out Mail, Maps, Safari and Photos for Google’s Gmail, Google Maps, and Chrome. Works for him. Apple Maps has a nicer UI look, but Google Maps is better in my experience. The music controls in the Google Maps app is handy as well.
 
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oldmacs said:
Why is it that 8 versions of iOS have come out since iCloud Drive was introduced, and I still can't download a whole folder of items at once?
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That's by design for the benefit of the user. File folders might confuse them.

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Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. She’d laid out the assignment clearly, but student after student was calling her over for help. They were all getting the same error message: The program couldn’t find their files.

Garland thought it would be an easy fix. She asked each student where they’d saved their project. Could they be on the desktop? Perhaps in the shared drive? But over and over, she was met with confusion. “What are you talking about?” multiple students inquired. Not only did they not know where their files were saved — they didn’t understand the question.

Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators have reached in the past four years: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations’ understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students.

Professors have varied recollections of when they first saw the disconnect. But their estimates (even the most tentative ones) are surprisingly similar. It’s been an issue for four years or so, starting — for many educators — around the fall of 2017.
 
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Of course they want my homescreen covered with their apps and widgets. I'm sure Facebook wants the same thing. Well it ain't gonna happen.
 
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Only drive and maps are better than what apple has and you don't need a widget for either
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That is pretty subjective and I disageee with you. Apple Maps is better for me because I use it all the time, almost never use google, harking to the times it got me lost. If I did use Google maps, I suppose I would prefer that, but like I said, got me lost. drive is only purportedly better if you want a file explore type feal, I prefer iCloud and files, because it integrates so well and does what I want. But if I did use drive more, I would be fine with it
 
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Even though this whole thing is kind of sad, I have to give kudos to Google for their Calendar app. It's better than the built in calendar app because it shows you the entire month and the events on one page, written out, rather than just a calendar with dots you have to tap to see what they are.

The month calendar with dots is one of iOS's longest running design flaws, and I wish they'd make it better. It looks great on Mac and iPadOS, and I've submitted Feedback a few years in a row to no avail. I think it's a vestige left over from when iPhones had much smaller screens; that design made sense back then.

Until they fix it, I'll use Google's Calendar app on my phone. It can access local and iCloud calendars just fine, too.
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A whole month? That is some small text on a phone of any kind. The week view obtained by rotating the screen to landscape shows full text for 7 days at a time which is small enough already.
 
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People up on a crosses for Apple, spitting down at google. Amazing filtering, as if Apple isn’t spying on you, tracking you, providing your data to others, or using coerced labor to make your device. it’s like preferring a particular brand of catsup because they spell it ketchup.
 
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That is pretty subjective and I disageee with you. Apple Maps is better for me because I use it all the time, almost never use google, harking to the times it got me lost. If I did use Google maps, I suppose I would prefer that, but like I said, got me lost. drive is only purportedly better if you want a file explore type feal, I prefer iCloud and files, because it integrates so well and does what I want. But if I did use drive more, I would be fine with it
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We can agree to disagree on google maps but icloud has crummy cross platform support but I will concede is fine if you only have ios devices or don't need to easily share files with friends or strangers
 
MauiPa said:
That is pretty subjective and I disageee with you. Apple Maps is better for me because I use it all the time, almost never use google, harking to the times it got me lost. If I did use Google maps, I suppose I would prefer that, but like I said, got me lost. drive is only purportedly better if you want a file explore type feal, I prefer iCloud and files, because it integrates so well and does what I want. But if I did use drive more, I would be fine with it
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Drive is unnecessarily cumbersome. I really hate when people send me files through it. The problem is, they are alway attempting to capture data on who is sending what to who. So, they are constantly wanting you to login, signup, or download their app. Great for them, terrible for user experience and privacy.
 
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