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I, as a user, want the best user experience I can have. Who else cares more about the user experience and provides a viable alternative? Google goes out of it
by joelfried 4y ago
I, as a user, want the best user experience I can have.
Who else cares more about the user experience and provides a viable alternative? Google goes out of its way to buy and kill products, and even their core product is so bad that I'm often finding myself making fun of how absolutely awful their search results are.[1].
Could I make Android work for me? With time and effort, probably. I'm very short on both of those and now it's not just my personal method of interaction - it's my entire family. So I'm not going to.
Just working seamlessly and caring about UX are pretty gigantic. It's not that Apple is that great, it's that all of the alternatives -- like searches on the Amazon catalog these days -- result in a surfeit of garbage.
[1] The most recent one I have was my search with the following three terms, no quotes in this order: ssri neuron mechanism. The first hit was a link to a Google Books book titled "Textbook of Rare Sexual Medical Conditions". I got that result last week. I just searched again and was unable to find that result anywhere on the first page today. What happened then that isn't happening now? I couldn't tell you but my email is the only thing I rely on Google for anymore and I'm very seriously considering migrating away from it in 2023 just because I don't trust Google with that most important part of my digital identity any longer.