This seems to be a common and popular trend these days, especially on HN. Is anyone doing the opposite and becoming more ingrained into the Google ecosystem?
I'd love to dive more into the Android/Google side of things, but these sentiments are (unfortunately) making me think twice about doing so. I'd like to read different perspectives if they are out there.
I’ve moved further and further from google for my personal email and communications, for all the reasons elucidated above. However, for my commercial presence, I opened a gsuite account because it seamlessly brought together - and kept together - disparate components that I wanted to be able to use in a device-agnostic manner for myself and my team. I could have brought things together from a half dozen different, possibly better, services but gsuite was basically one-stop-shopping. I didn’t want to spend time getting the tools together, I wanted to spend it on the job at hand. The communications tools are good enough.
That said, I may change my mind about that. For getting work done I still find Outlook kicks the shit out of gmail, and Microsoft Live or 365 or whatever they call it has a very very solid online office suite (and their offline tools remain best in class, IMO). Todoist integrates with both. I’m just lazy about non-mission-critical upgrades. I don’t have a good replacement for google hangouts, though. Skype is a festering tire-fire, and I don’t ever want to use a webex unless I’m being held at gunpoint by the Cisco CTO.
Yes, kinda. I tried the iPhone 8 (this is Brazil..) after 8 years on Android and feel like Android is much more modern, integrated, free, and even has better designs on so many places (yes, its odd). Particularly the Play Store is beautiful compared to the App Store.
Every app on iOS has a paywall, integrations are limited, apps can't process your SMS, stuff like this enrages me. Actually I couldn't even find a good way to transfer images/codes both ways, like I do with PushBullet on Chrome + Android all the time.
For me iOS also misses taps and lags on some operations. If using Swiftkey, sometimes the wrong keyboard will pop-up. I feel like the image I had as an outsider that iOS was perfect and smooth kinda broke.
So I guess I cannot compare to other people because they use their phones differently: I have to test everything...
I'd love to dive more into the Android/Google side of things, but these sentiments are (unfortunately) making me think twice about doing so. I'd like to read different perspectives if they are out there.