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Google Developing Search-Focused Third-Party Keyboard for iOS
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All your points are specific to your needs and as a whole, don't reflect the majority. Don't need external storage. I have 128gb. Don't require a file manager. I have iCloud Drive. Don't want split screen on. 5.7" device. I don't like google so therefore don't need or want Google now. Why would you want to sync between two different OS? That's a personal issue. Not a flaw.
It's good to be part of the 1% of people who are different from the rest of the world.
What part of "third party" you don't understand?
Or do you mean that I can also ask Apple to fix my programs?
Um... pretty sure everybody is technically different from, well, everyone else. It's usually best in these situations to point out to the other person that everybody is weird, and if they haven't noticed that then they need to get out more.
Well, sure. That goes for Apple users as well.
Nobody had a problem for years with iAds, even though Apple was leveraging their private knowledge of us, same as Google does. Except that Apple likely knew even more, since they were using iTunes info with all its detailed account info and purchase/downloads history.
Most people also had no problem with Apple's servers scanning our emails for spam. Heck, almost every email system does that. After all, it's just machines reading it. Do we fear that an email computer will notice us getting a lot of Viagra ads? Nope. Likewise, if a Google machine sees a plane ticket confirmation, it adds it to Google Now. It's like having an automated personal assistant to look for the important and non-important info we get.
(OTOH, remember that time when it was discovered that Apple scanned email titles for phrases like "almost legal teen girls" and THREW AWAY the emails instead of putting them in a spam folder? At that point, Apple crossed firmly into Big Brother censor territory.)
For years Apple has gotten a huge kickback from Google for letting them be the default search engine. People are okay with Apple making over a billion a year for doing that, even though it's basically Apple selling our personal search info to the highest bidder, in return for a portion of the advertising proceeds.
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I've tried every popular third party keyboard on iOS and they've all been crap. I've tried Swiftkey on Android and it's good.
Your comparisons are off.
Software scanning for indicators of spam is NOT the same as scanning the content, keeping it in an index to build a profile about the user and then using that information to feed them targeted ads. Those are two entirely different things.
iAds does not use user information in the same way. They use a very small bit of user information within a couple very limited categories. Users can also easily opt out, which can't be done with Google. They do not use email content, search history, messaging history, contact information, and the countless other sources of information that Google does.
Taking $1 billion in turn for making someone the default search engine is not the same thing as recording everything a user searches for. One may lead to the other but there is still the choice by the user to hand over that information or not change to someone that doesn't record user information like DuckDuckGo. You can buy a gun but that doesn't mean you put it to your head and pull the trigger. Those are two different things completely.
You're trying to compare them to Google. I'm pointing out that Apple does indeed profit off their user's personal data, either directly or indirectly.
Both are instances of computers "reading" our email. If one is okay, there's no reason to fear the other.
That's not true at all. Read my links, view what Apple themselves have said they use. Their more intimate knowledge of us is exactly why Apple thought they could charge so much money for iAds.
You can turn off targeted ads with Android (and Google) just the same as with iAds.
Moreover, with Google you can use your Google Dashboard and go view and modify your ad interests that they had pegged you with, if you do wish to keep getting targeted ads. Apple had no such transparency or fine control.
They used all or most of our iTunes info, which Google does not have. Our home address, our device type, our location at the time of accessing the ad, our media and app purchase history, possibly our credit info, and tried to derive our sex and race.
No, it's allowing someone else to do it, and profiting from it. While at the same time hypocritically claiming that they don't use their customers as products, which is total BS. Don't even get me started on how Apple sells its customers to the banks in return for letting us register our own banks on our own devices with Apple Pay.
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