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Google Is Eating Apple's Ecosystem for Lunch

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Re: Google Is Eating Apple's Ecosystem for Lunch

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Post by muninn_ »

Here we go again...

Ok a couple of quick quotes:

"I say 'OK Google, goodbye when I leave the house to turn off the lights" k. I just turn off the lights. Why do I need a Google Home to do that? Why can't I do that with Homekit or Echo?

" grew frustrated by Apple's terrible iCloud pricing, and how seemingly great Google Photos appeared to be"

iCloud's pricing isn't terrible, it's just fine. They don't mine my photos and data, and I pay $2.99/month for 200gb. Some people don't understand that "free" photo storage isn't actually free.

"First, Google Assistant alongside Google Home is wild. When you own a Pixel, saying OK Google at home activates your speakers and your phone"

yawn

"Apple's direction, for better or for worse, is to lock you into a single track and make it agonizing to use anything but the official services"

Really?

Look, I think the Pixel 2 is a great phone and Google has some great products, even if I disagree with their business practices, but this article is over-the-top bad.

Re: Google Is Eating Apple's Ecosystem for Lunch

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Post by AznHisoka »

BadassFractal wrote: post #2

Can I buy into the google software ecosystem + Google Home without trading in my MBP/iPhone/iPad for a Chromebook/Pixel/Nexus?

You can use the search engine, Gmail, YouTube, Youtube TV, Google Maps, Google Chrome and Google Analytics all on an iPhone or Mac.

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Post by zitterbewegung »

Vendor lock in through making products working together is not only present in Apple's ecosystem but in Google's and also Facebook .

It looks like they changed their ecosystem to use Google Products because they have more feature that they want. All of these decisions are valid. To be honest the biggest issue with Google is the support and longevity of the software that they create. On Apple it seems like they are slowly moving to more of a service oriented platform and are attempting to overhaul it but at the cost of their Prosumers.

I really hope that eventually in the "post screen era" that we don't have to buy devices that are owned by one company.

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Post by melling »

Amazon’s Echo is far ahead of Google Home in sales. They’re trying to get voice in everything. Many companies were showing off Alexa built into their products at CES.

Voice as a user interface is almost here:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/voice-as-a-user-inte...

How long before a significant amount of search is simply asking some device a question and being told the answer?

Re: Google Is Eating Apple's Ecosystem for Lunch

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Post by yequalsx »

All of my devices are Apple devices. A crappy Dell laptop and my disasstifaction with Windows led me to switch to Apple 12 years ago. I loved the Mac operating system and that momentum got me to buy iPads and their phones. I use Apple Music. I use iDrive.

I don’t use Siri. Apple Maps sucks and as a result I don’t use CarPlay. Apple Music search sucks. There’s a bunch of thing now in Apple’s ecosystem that don’t “just work”. More and more I find myself telling my wife that Apple is slipping. Privacy concerns are the only thing keeping off of Google’s system but it won’t be long before the hostile nature of Apples system forces me to abandon ship.

I think Apple ought to spend a year concentrating on fixing the increasing number of annoyances and stop doing stupid things like keeping Google maps off Car Play. What’s the point of adding features that don’t “just work”?

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