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The thing is, most of Google's services are available on iOS as well. And IMO Google's apps are as good on iOS or even better than they are on Android. You can

by traek 12y ago

The thing is, most of Google's services are available on iOS as well. And IMO Google's apps are as good on iOS or even better than they are on Android. You can get the best of both worlds by using iOS with Google's apps and services.

lern_too_spel 12y ago
You can't make every address link open in the superior maps app or every tweet open in the superior twitter app or every link open in the superior browser app. While iOS may have closed the gap in finally having these apps, actually using them is a frustrating experience.
- threeseed 12y ago
  You will be able to iOS8 and can do so now if you jailbreak.
  - kyrra 12y ago
    How so? From what I'm seeing, you can't change the default app for maps, browser, etc.
toomuchtodo 12y ago
True, but Google needs to keep their own platform as large as possible. What do we say around HN about building your business on someone else's platform?
- rayiner 12y ago
  > What do we say around HN about building your business on someone else's platform? That the government should regulate those peoples' platforms?
  - deleted 12y ago
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  - declan 12y ago
    >That the government should regulate those peoples' platforms? I take it you're joking: https://www.google.com/search?q="regulate+twitter"+site%3Anews.ycombinator.com https://www.google.com/search?q="regulate+twitter"+site%3Ane... No results found for "regulate twitter" site:news.ycombinator.com. The conventional wisdom around HN nowadays, as I understand it, is to be wary of building your business on someone else's platform. Lots of companies in the Twitter (and to some extent FB and Craigslist) ecosystem have found this out the hard way. The Apple ecosystem too, if you include app store shenanigans, as some wallet makers learned during the bitcoin interregnum. I don't recall a lot of people here demanding a Federal Bureau of App Store and API Software Licensing and Regulation. Besides, if it existed, the FBASASLR would ban bitcoin wallets even more aggressively than Apple did. :)
    - ZeroGravitas 12y ago
      I'm guessing it was a reference to "net neutrality" which is a legislative attempt to prevent near-monopoly internet providers from capturing excess profits from web services.
      - declan 12y ago
        Ah, that makes a bit more sense. But I've never heard of anyone calling AT&T or Verizon or Comcast a "platform" that a developer might choose to build a business on. BTW even if you like the ideas of Net neutrality, it makes sense to look very carefully at the methods of bringing it about that are being proposed at the FCC. Daniel Berninger at VCXC.org earlier this week put it better than I could: "The communicating public needs a 'voice' in the future of communication, but expanding FCC authority over IP networks via Title II does not achieve this goal. "First - Internet access is not 'slow' - we near a one million fold expansion of bandwidth from the days of 300 baud modems. "Second - The advocacy for FCC regulation reflects a theory of regulatory virtue not achieved in practice. "Third - New regulation of IP networks threatens the Moore Law driven forces responsible for progress to date."
72deluxe 12y ago
I find Google Maps worse on iPad than on my old Motorola Xoom.

by traek 12y ago

lern_too_spel 12y ago

You can't make every address link open in the superior maps app or every tweet open in the superior twitter app or every link open in the superior browser app. While iOS may have closed the gap in finally having these apps, actually using them is a frustrating experience.

threeseed 12y ago
You will be able to iOS8 and can do so now if you jailbreak.
- kyrra 12y ago
  How so? From what I'm seeing, you can't change the default app for maps, browser, etc.

toomuchtodo 12y ago

True, but Google needs to keep their own platform as large as possible. What do we say around HN about building your business on someone else's platform?

rayiner 12y ago
> What do we say around HN about building your business on someone else's platform? That the government should regulate those peoples' platforms?
- deleted 12y ago
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- declan 12y ago
  >That the government should regulate those peoples' platforms? I take it you're joking: https://www.google.com/search?q="regulate+twitter"+site%3Anews.ycombinator.com https://www.google.com/search?q="regulate+twitter"+site%3Ane... No results found for "regulate twitter" site:news.ycombinator.com. The conventional wisdom around HN nowadays, as I understand it, is to be wary of building your business on someone else's platform. Lots of companies in the Twitter (and to some extent FB and Craigslist) ecosystem have found this out the hard way. The Apple ecosystem too, if you include app store shenanigans, as some wallet makers learned during the bitcoin interregnum. I don't recall a lot of people here demanding a Federal Bureau of App Store and API Software Licensing and Regulation. Besides, if it existed, the FBASASLR would ban bitcoin wallets even more aggressively than Apple did. :)
  - ZeroGravitas 12y ago
    I'm guessing it was a reference to "net neutrality" which is a legislative attempt to prevent near-monopoly internet providers from capturing excess profits from web services.
    - declan 12y ago
      Ah, that makes a bit more sense. But I've never heard of anyone calling AT&T or Verizon or Comcast a "platform" that a developer might choose to build a business on. BTW even if you like the ideas of Net neutrality, it makes sense to look very carefully at the methods of bringing it about that are being proposed at the FCC. Daniel Berninger at VCXC.org earlier this week put it better than I could: "The communicating public needs a 'voice' in the future of communication, but expanding FCC authority over IP networks via Title II does not achieve this goal. "First - Internet access is not 'slow' - we near a one million fold expansion of bandwidth from the days of 300 baud modems. "Second - The advocacy for FCC regulation reflects a theory of regulatory virtue not achieved in practice. "Third - New regulation of IP networks threatens the Moore Law driven forces responsible for progress to date."

72deluxe 12y ago

I find Google Maps worse on iPad than on my old Motorola Xoom.