{"id":23566,"date":"2018-12-03T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23566"},"modified":"2018-12-27T12:45:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T17:45:58","slug":"on-switching-from-an-ipad-pro-and-a-macbook-to-a-pixelbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/03\/on-switching-from-an-ipad-pro-and-a-macbook-to-a-pixelbook\/","title":{"rendered":"On Switching From an iPad Pro and a MacBook to a Pixelbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fraser Speirs<\/a> (tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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When Google Drive launched in 2012, we started making more use of it and Google Docs. In the six years since, we have really gone all-in on these apps. I was never a huge fan of web-based software but we started with one particular project where we cut so much time and effort out of the process that I couldn’t help but get interested.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Fast forward to 2018 and virtually all of the work I do at school is now in Google Docs. I don’t think I’ve created anything new outside Google Docs for a couple of years now.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

My school runs on GSuite but we usually access it through iPads. What I have found, though, is that the GSuite iOS apps are not very good. They lack important (and sometimes basic) functionality found in the web version of GSuite and they take a long time to adopt iOS platform features.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The point, though, is that GSuite is so powerful and so much at the heart of everything I do at school that if you asked me to decide between giving up GSuite and giving up iPad, I’m afraid iPad has to go. It is for this reason that I have been vocally advocating that Apple make iOS Safari as close to a “desktop class” browser as it can be.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Zac Cichy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Why does Apple get called out for how poorly G Suite works on iOS, and not Google for making sub-par iOS apps?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Foad Afshari<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It is oftentimes said to be Apple’s problem versus the users’ problem. What if I like to use iOS and G Suite? Why do I as a user have to suffer for it?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Keith Edwards<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Why does everyone accept that you can’t set default apps on iOS? Why am I given a worse experience for a premium product because I choose to use apps outside of apples services ecosystem and how it is legal to not provide an option to switch?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2018-12-27): See also: Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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