• Leaflet@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Google products work on pretty much every platform, whereas with Apple you’re out of luck if you use any non-Apple platforms.

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    6 months ago

    I moved from an android to iPhone, I was still using a lot of Google apps because that is where all my stuff was. I am changing everything over to proton that I can.

  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    we use google stuff for work, that’s the only reason I have them.

    as for average people, because they are free and almost no one cares about data monetization.

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    6 months ago

    Because until recently (last few years) Apple’s online (website based) game for things like iCloud Photos was weak as hell.

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    6 months ago

    I understand the purpose of the Google app on Android, but what is the purpose to have the effort of installing it in iOS while you have “the power of Google” in safari or whatever browser you use?

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      6 months ago

      Yeah that’s what I don’t get. Who are all these people installing the Google app on their iPhones?

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    6 months ago

    I can elaborate why I have Google Maps installed on an iPhone, despite that I can use Apple Maps, which is pre-installed:

    Google Maps is way better in announcing directions when travelling with a car, because it announces several times ahead: at 4 km before an intersection, at 800 m and finally when to actually drive through an intersection. This is more helpful than Apples announcement, which is just once a few kilometers ahead of the point where to change direction. Also, intersections are depicted more clearly in Google Maps.

    Additional to that, I find that the woman from Google sounds way more nicer than that bitch from Apple. Apples voice has a pissed-off undertone, probably because it needs to tell you directions in the first place.

    On the other hand, the street-view feature is better on Apple Maps.

  • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    I have Maps installed but never use it. I have Chat installed for that one weird friend who only has Google Chat because she says all her friends are there.