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Google is making better apps for the iPhone than for Android
2016-07-09 05:54:18 Post No. 55485452
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Google is making better apps for the iPhone than for Android
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2016-07-09 05:54:18
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Even Google realizes how shit and not worth spending time on Android is.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/8/12109832/google-apps-iphone-android-motion-stills-gboard-search-hangouts
>Here’s a thing I didn’t really expect to write: I’m finding that I enjoy Google’s apps more on iOS than I do on Android. Or more specifically: I think that there’s more interesting innovation coming out of Google’s iOS app teams than on Android — at least for the moment.
>Back in May, my colleague Ben Popper talked about how Google’s apps on iOS were so good that he saw little reason to switch over to Android, despite the fact that he spends so much time in Google’s waters. Lately, I’ve found myself in basically the same boat. Email? Inbox. Calendar? Google Calendar. Keyboard? Gboard. Maps? Duh. The list goes on and on.
>[Google Keyboard] It’s so good, it makes me wonder why the hell it isn’t on Android. Apparently there are plans to "bring the same functionality to Android," but it sure seems like the iOS side of things is where the innovation is happening right now. Perhaps it's that constraints tend to breed creative solutions, or perhaps it’s just that – even for Google engineers — iOS is simply easier to develop great apps for.
>Let’s take one example: Hangouts, Google’s oft-maligned (and justly so!) chat app. On iOS, it feels coherent and consistent. On Android, the design and placement of the buttons change seemingly every other month. On iOS, you can use extensions to share directly to a person in a chat right inside the pop-up share sheet. Google added the ability for apps to do something like that on Android in October 2015, with a feature called "Direct Share." Hangouts only began supporting it last month.
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