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Google products work on pretty much every platform, whereas with Apple you're out of luck if you use any non-Apple platforms.
Apple Music is on Android and Windows.
Apple TV is one a wide range of devices.
AirPlay is on a wide range of TVs, and Roku boxes.
iCloud is on Windows. Files, photos, contacts, etc. They just added Passwords.
So out of luck isn’t exactly true. Unless you are a die hard Pages user or something. And there you have a web app.
Nice cherry picked examples. iMessage isn't available on other platforms, and it's impossible to join a shared iphotos album from a non apple device. Two features that are arguably the most important for non apple users.
I wasn’t cherry picking. The assertion was nothing was available on other platforms.
And my pushback didn’t say everything was.
Apple Music on Windows sucked hard until a year ago or so.
Apple TV/AirPlay is only on select devices.
iCloud on Windows sucks cock.
Compared to that “lineup,” Google services work outright flawless.
Fair criticisms. I personally avoid installing iCloud on Windows because I’m scared of it causing some sort of sync issue.
But the assertion was there was nothing.
Also, Chromecast was only on select devices. Google Playstore is only on select devices.
When’s the last time you tried iCloud for Windows?
There was a time where the app was clunky and awful, but the last few times I’ve had to interact with it it came pretty damn close to seamless.
yeah but they don’t have linux versions of any of their software. an increasing number of people are ditching windows because of microsoft’s intensifying enshittification and hackintoshes are dying because of the mac transition to apple silicon
Apple Maps also is available via browser for a few weeks now.
@paraphrand @that_leaflet @apple_enthusiast you can use Apple Music in the browser just so you know.
Same with many (most) iCloud things.
@paraphrand @clf @apple_enthusiast my only real problem with iOS/macOS is that iWork isn’t ODF compatible which makes it useless for me as I collaborate.
It’s strange that this far on, that wouldn’t have been added yet. Even in a usable, but not nice to use way.
@paraphrand totally agree. I don’t understand the thinking behind “walled garden” software.