I like both and have no trouble moving pretty seamlessly between them. Safari is fine for some/most things and chrome is fine for some/most things. I go either/or. After getting a belly full of iOS I can switch to Android/Google anytime and vice/versa. They both bring good things to the table IMO. Love the choice of OS's and find both quite useful.
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How are you able to switch from OS easily? My thinking is Google is more of a cross platform.
My needs may be less complicated than some other folks. I have an HTC 10 that I pop my sim into when I feel the need to get away from apple. Both are set up for gmail accounts so that pretty much makes it easy. Also have a mac book which coordinates with my iPhone 7. For browsers I use safari, chrome and opera. I don't see a problem. Search engine is google. When I put my sim in my android iOS is left behind and in seconds I'm back to the google eco system and everything is set up as I left it. To me one os gets stale after awhile and swapping is a nice fresh change. Maybe I'm missing your point.
I'm not someone who takes a ton of photos, but of the ones I do take a lot of them get discarded anyway. On the iPhone obviously they all sync to my mac which is where I ultimately want to store them, the better ones.
The ones taken with my HTC phone are stored on the phone and I usually end up deleting 80% of them eventually. I generally share a lot of the best ones and use email to do that. I can copy myself and add them to the laptop that way later.
My bigger need is to have my calendar and email synced over my 2 phones and laptop and that is seamless. The photos I generally take are outdoorsy scenic stuff and I tend to take to many of one scene so I just choose the best and delete the rest. I know some people take literally hundreds of photos and want to save them all so it would maybe be more hassle for them.
The ones taken with my HTC phone are stored on the phone and I usually end up deleting 80% of them eventually. I generally share a lot of the best ones and use email to do that. I can copy myself and add them to the laptop that way later.
My bigger need is to have my calendar and email synced over my 2 phones and laptop and that is seamless. The photos I generally take are outdoorsy scenic stuff and I tend to take to many of one scene so I just choose the best and delete the rest. I know some people take literally hundreds of photos and want to save them all so it would maybe be more hassle for them.
Just the stock calendars on both phones. All syncs. to mac book, iPhone and HTC 10. Never had a problem syncing.
I use to be a huge android/google guy as far back as I was in one of the first invite groups for gmail when it was beta, had google voice before google owned it (grand central it was called) and so forth. When I got my iPhone 5s I fell in love with the apple system. I now use gmail and have my google voice number but I have everything synced cross platform. I can put an entry on my MyBP calendar and it not only syncs to my phone but also I have it all syncing to my google calendar. My gmail is through the gmail app and have all the other google apps on my phone. I use google maps over apple maps usually
Having said that, I have no desire to use android any further. I have an android as a back up phone but I like aplle devices and MacBooks. I love how I can sync things from phone to computer so easy, love how when I copy text on the MBP or iPhone I can paste it on another device.
I have went as far as buying all of my kids iPhones, two of my kids live out of state and we FaceTime quite a bit.
I like how google apps work but like using an iPhone
Having said that, I have no desire to use android any further. I have an android as a back up phone but I like aplle devices and MacBooks. I love how I can sync things from phone to computer so easy, love how when I copy text on the MBP or iPhone I can paste it on another device.
I have went as far as buying all of my kids iPhones, two of my kids live out of state and we FaceTime quite a bit.
I like how google apps work but like using an iPhone
I prefer cross platform myself. The only thing would use iCloud for is photos. Trying to figure out how to go cross platform. Any suggestions? What browser are you using on iPhone?
I've got my email, calendar and contacts all stored on Google after i set it up that way not long after i got my first 3GS and there was no iCloud. Started with Google Calendar as i wanted one i could sync between my phone and my work PC etc then went with Gmail and my contacts on there a short while later. Added in my iPad when i got that a bit later on and whilst it was annoying when Google pulled Push email etc its never been enough of an issue to warrant changing anything. We have a few devices on the same iTunes account and my wifes phone backs up to the iCloud stuff but with my main stuff on Google, photos backed up to OneDrive and the fact i dont really care about keeping text messages going back years etc if i have to restore my phone or anything happens the stuff i am bothered about is covered.
I've no interest in moving to Android but there is no real reason not to use Google stuff with an iPhone if you want to.
I've no interest in moving to Android but there is no real reason not to use Google stuff with an iPhone if you want to.
Yea downloaded some Google apps. One in particular that's interesting is Google Photos. Free storage with no limits? Just uploaded all my photos and videos there. Like the interface so far. Like the search feature.
I'm starting to find a need for cross platform and / or syncing or accessing stuff between my iPhone and other hardware. If I used Apple I would have to login to iCloud.com which I never do anyway. I'm always logging into Google to access my stuff. It's like I'm on one platform on mobile and another on other hardware.
I think that's where I was getting hung up. For example I have a lot of bookmarks on Google Chrome on our Mac that I use a lot. Those same bookmarks I have bookmarked on Safari on my iPhone. When I would find a new URL that was important on my iPhone and relevant to our Mac I bookmark it on Safari iPhone then there was no syncing to our Mac since I use Chrome.
To me Google is way more cross platform than Apple because either Google is more popular or more accessible on other hardware. Not that you can't log into iCloud but it's not my default. I do a lot of docs and never used Pages, always use Google.
I'm starting to Google-fy my iPhone. Surprisingly in my opinion most Google apps seem to work better on iOS than native iOS apps. Maybe it's me. Plus in my opinion Google apps are not stale like iOS apps.
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For this bit this Chrome extension may be of use :-
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...ebhah?hl=en-US&utm_source=chrome-ntp-launcher
Should in theory show your iCloud Bookmarks in the Chrome if you store them in there on your phone.
I do the same. My main phone is an iPhone 6, but I have a oneplus one that I swap the sim into every so often. Both are setup with my email accounts, so no problem.
Thanks I prefer to use mobile Chrome but I don't like how the forward and back buttons are on the top.
I've been trying to remove myself from Google's ecosystem, though I still need to use Gmail, Google Calendar, and various Google web apps for work. For my personal life, I prefer to stick with iCloud and Apple products, because I like the design and the integration with my hardware. I also don't really care for Google's business model of selling all your info to advertisers.
Chrome now has the same swipe from left to right to go back a page and right to left to go forward a page that Safari uses so no need to use the buttons.
Chrome is an awful browser, from what I remember when I used android the standard "internet" got better benchmarks, and looked less cluttered. I dont see how one could be trapped in anybody's operating system but Apples, you can download almost any App from google and use it on an iPhone, but the opposite is not true for iPhone.
In what way? Underperforming you own old browser is a pretty bad way to start, although I admit I have no idea how it competes now on Android. On IOS using any browser but safari is just not worth it due to Apple constraints, safari will always be far and away the fastest on these devices, just the sad truth. Used to adore Chrome until I woke up and realized that people just love it like they love Apple - fanatically without any observation of actual facts. Opera is by far the most useful third party browser on IOS, as it can actually compress the data to help in bad service situations.
I pick and choose depending on what I need.
For computers and laptops, I'm Windows. For my phone, either Android or Apple works.
I'm chose Apple for my first and only smartphone (6s) so far, but may give Android a try in Sept. It will depend on how the S8 fares and what Apple gives us in return. I'm not tied down to any one company for music, movies, or books.
For my tablet, the iPad.
For computers and laptops, I'm Windows. For my phone, either Android or Apple works.
I'm chose Apple for my first and only smartphone (6s) so far, but may give Android a try in Sept. It will depend on how the S8 fares and what Apple gives us in return. I'm not tied down to any one company for music, movies, or books.
For my tablet, the iPad.
I'll have to rethink the browser. I use Chrome on our Mac with a lot of extensions for my business. Was thinking that since I use desktop Chrome why not mobile iOS Chrome.
What browsers will sync with Chrome?