… It’s, because out of the box, iOS user don’t produce enough revenue for Google. It sounds like Luke Wroblewski’s wet dream.
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Google Basically Wants Your iPhone 13 Home Screen to Look Like Android
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No thank you. I like my Apple device to look Appley 🍎
I saw this with an uncle (boomer) and a laptop.
Uncle: "I can't find my photos."
Me: "Where did you put them?"
Uncle: "On the computer."
Even after explaining folders, I could tell it didn't really sink in. I don't think Apple should design to this level, but it is a real issue.
Wait, shouldn't the title be: Apple Basically Wants Your iPhone 13 Home Screen to Look Like Android ? 😂
I disagree on the platform support. I have been using iCloud and predecessor for decades. I rarely have had an issue. The difference is Google controls the conversation on the internet so all of the frequent issues and outages are buried on the 5-10th pages. Including the bugs that are acknowledged. On the other hand you have dozens of sites whose writers seem to on search for opportunities to bash Apple and somehow make it national news. If they reported all the attacks on patched on Android like they do Apple, that would be the only news.
Notice a search for Google flaws on duck duck go even reverts to google posting negative reports about Apple.
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I find Google Maps and Apple Maps to both be great in different ways, and use them both regularly when traveling.
Apple Maps is faster, is more privacy oriented, and works better to leave running in the background on a long road trip. If I need quick directions somewhere I'll usually reach for Apple Maps first.
Google Maps has richer information that's good for exploring a new area, a very capable offline mode (which sadly Apple Maps still lacks) and has a larger user base so when someone sends you a link it's more likely to be a Google Maps link. So it's good to have too.
I've had cases where one app couldn't get me good directions, and other app did, and vice versa. I love having both available.
My workplace is Microsoft heavy, and I generally don't use Microsoft apps in my off hours so I use the work Focus Mode to show a work specific home screen during work hours and hide it when not in working hours.
I mean, is good that this exists, rather than not, right? some people might fancy one or two of these widgets / proposition, Im guessing the gmail one, perhaps.
This also helps Apple's case against the anti-competitive inquiries it's facing.
This also helps Apple's case against the anti-competitive inquiries it's facing.
They don't care about hardware. They just want more data, it doesn't matter where it comes from!
Exactly what I was thinking. Sort of an in-between transition phase for helping a family member or friend make the move. I haven't delved into Focus much, but I imagine you could even set up an Android/Google Focus that would give you this, but then you could change your Focus over to everything non-Google. Something to consider maybe.
This just got me thinking... I wonder if you'll ever be able to share a Focus setup similar to sharing an Apple Watch face.
Oh please, I'd love to replace the Apple stuff with other things, a lot of them Google. Using some Google Apps doesn't mean you want to go Android, get a grip.
I can sense the frustration they have with the inability to clutter 43 notification icons along the top of the screen to make it look even more like Android.
apple is partially to blame by making security and privacy the cornerstone of their advertising so when they fall short of their own claims (on top of having very expensive products) it's not unreasonable for them to be the focus of more scrutiny.
I've paid apple quite a lot of money for very good products and, in my opinion, criticism and hoping for improvement is the true display of loyalty.
I don't see the point, but to each their own! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Edit: I see the point in google offering these suggestions. I don't see the point in buying an iPhone if you prefer Android software. I'm sure there is someone out there who thinks this is amazing, and more power to them. You get your android-esque software and I get my blue text bubbles.
Edit: I see the point in google offering these suggestions. I don't see the point in buying an iPhone if you prefer Android software. I'm sure there is someone out there who thinks this is amazing, and more power to them. You get your android-esque software and I get my blue text bubbles.
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Oooooh, I gotta read that article. I have two daughters currently in college (one a Bio major/pre-med, and the other computer gaming design), so I'll have to ask them about that.That's by design for the benefit of the user. File folders might confuse them.
Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever
Professors are struggling to teach Gen Zwww.theverge.com
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.