{"id":13823,"date":"2016-03-10T17:08:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T22:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13823"},"modified":"2016-03-11T10:59:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:59:17","slug":"google-doesnt-prioritize-ios-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/10\/google-doesnt-prioritize-ios-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Doesn&rsquo;t Prioritize iOS Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/notes\/on-googles-ios-apps\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/notes\/on-googles-ios-apps\/\">\n<p>No matter the technical reason behind the scenes, a company the size of Google shouldn&rsquo;t need four months (nine if you count WWDC 2015) to ship a partial [Google Docs] compatibility update for iOS 9 and the iPad Pro. Google have only themselves to blame for their lack of attention and failure to deliver modern iOS apps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Other Google apps also lag behind on iOS. <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/google\/2016\/02\/29\/google-maps-on-ios-finally-gets-detour-feature\/\">Kirsty Styles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/google\/2016\/02\/29\/google-maps-on-ios-finally-gets-detour-feature\/\"><p>After launching on Android in October last year, a pitstop feature has finally dropped on Google Maps for iOS today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Update (2016-03-11): <a href=\"http:\/\/macsparky.com\/blog\/2016\/3\/a-tale-of-two-ios-developers\">David Sparks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/macsparky.com\/blog\/2016\/3\/a-tale-of-two-ios-developers\"><p>Somewhere along the line, however, things flipped. These days Microsoft&rsquo;s iPad apps are arguably better than their Mac apps. I&rsquo;m particularly impressed with Microsoft Word on the iPad Pro, which I&rsquo;m using just about every day. Google, on the other hand, has declined.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Viticci: No matter the technical reason behind the scenes, a company the size of Google shouldn&rsquo;t need four months (nine if you count WWDC 2015) to ship a partial [Google Docs] compatibility update for iOS 9 and the iPad Pro. Google have only themselves to blame for their lack of attention and failure to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,610,245,31,1137,26,1269],"class_list":["post-13823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-google-docs","tag-googlemaps","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-iosapp","tag-ipad-pro"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13830,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions\/13830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}