“For Apple users, heading into the iOS or OS X world is like walking into a securely developed fun park. iOS 7, iCloud, and the forthcoming OS X Mavericks will have users experiencing Apple’s seamless solutions more so than ever before,” Mark Reschke writes for T-GAAP.
“Android may be a ubiquitous mobile offering, but the complications it delivers have become a pin the tail on the donkey approach,” Reschke writes. “Android quickly becomes a exercise that requires a rather hefty learning curve. Nearly everything users want to do instantly becomes an investigative process. Printing, sharing files, piecing together productivity apps, communications/messaging tools, music, video, purchasing content from online offerings, fiddling around is the rule – not the exception – with Android devices.”
“Only Apple has the desktop, mobile and cloud solutions seamlessly intertwined, and at an increasing rate, freely given to its users,” Reschke writes. “The gap between Apple and the competition is becoming wider with every Cook & Co. special event.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: iCloud Tabs alone are enough to convince most nonbelievers.
“Diving” force?
@iMaki
“diving” It’s another example of how Apple is flawed.
/s
Apple’s Ecosystem Becoming a Driving Force, Exposing Android’s Weaknesses…..in Full Article
Oops! I have done more or less what MDN has done! the article begins with, ‘Hundreds of millions of Apple users are diving ever deeper into….’
Wrong headline to the right intro.
Must be some kind of navy term… Submarines come to mind…
With the headline now corrected, our remarks make us look like a monkey’s arse!
MDN having the last laugh! Is it a ha! ha! ha! or a Mwaa ha! haaa!!
More like arse diving monkeys
And just how many Billion Dollar Server Farms has Samsung or any Android supplier built to date? When Apple’s iOS 7 download crushed the internet in so many places, where do these talking heads think the iOS 7 data was streamed from?
One, or two. Amazon builds billion dollar server farms although their version of Android is unrecognizable. In theory, both Google and Microsoft could do the same.
Yes iMaki, especially when your spell check is gathering dust!!! or if the editor/moderator is in a hurry for what ever the reason.
The original article states, ‘driving’.
Android is good at earning less as it takes 20 years to earn what Apple earns one year . So android can “grow” in 20 years while Apple “can’t”.
That is what the motherfuvkers want and lie about android growth = market share .
This is news? “Nearly everything users want to do instantly becomes an investigative process. Printing, sharing files, piecing together productivity apps, communications/messaging tools, music, video, purchasing content from online offerings, fiddling around is the rule – not the exception – with Android devices.”
Nothing new here, in fact you looks like the statement is modified from the early PC experience: Printing, RAM upgrade, sound card, accelerator card, hard drive, all so much part of the Windoze world, because they really were the toys for those who wanted to tinker.
Then as now, Mac was an empowering device, the power to be your best. The players may have changed but the attitude is the same.
It really is true though. After using my company supplied windows laptop I find it so warm and comforting to return to my MacBook Pro, iPad and iPhone.
Ditto!!!
As soon as I began reading comic books, I learned how to spell, and the proper use of grammar. I don’t need no stinking Spell Check!
(Wait a minute- that’s wrong, isn’t it?…)
Learning to read via comic books ought to have convinced you that every sentence must end in an exclamation point!
This doesn’t even consider the fact Android is different on different devices. So not only do you have to learn this once but with every other Android device.
It is real nice just to be thinking about what you are doing rather then worrying about what the device you are doing it on is doing. 🙂
It just works.
Ps: Apple’s “killer app ” for me is time machine. Second is iCloud.
So, why is Apple always considered a doomed company? Why doesn’t Apple load up on investors if Apple is seen to have such a secure future? Wouldn’t more institutions be buying Apple instead of running in the opposite direction?
The institutions have lobg underestimated Buffet as well. Are you new to this game? This has happened before, and it is intentional. You can’t keep a good company down forever, particularly when it has massive resources.
Funny, I was just showing somebody iCloud tabs today. From my iPhone, I could see and navigate to all the open tabs on my MacBook Air, iPad 2, and iPad mini. It’s pretty routine for me now, but she was blown away.
How are you able to do that? I missed something. How do I turn on this festure? On my iMac and iPhone ?
iCloud tabs. I found it. Cool feature!
Oh, and my iMac, too!
MDN: Please get an EDITOR!
Apple, diving in the 2014 Olympics…
no need, MDN has you Derek.
Editors? We don’t need no stinking Editors!
A huge benefit of iOS for my family is that five of us, wife, kids, and my mom, share one Apple i.d. account, although that is becoming less important as there are fewer and fewer apps or songs we all want to share. The downside to that, of course, is that none of us uses iCloud because it would turn into a horror show in a matter of days.
You can activate iCloud for different services, not just all or nothing. In your case, using iCloud for calendaring could be a huge boon: Create a calendar for Family and store there things every member needs to be aware of. If the kids are of driving age and need to share a car, the car can become a scheduled resource. With school-age kids storing calendar items for sports events, after-school events, etc., planning the day/week becomes easier for everyone. The discipline can take a while 😉 but even teenage boys can get there /s (that comment is directed at my son)
How deep will it dive?
This Android “gap” is the one advantage Microsoft has to enable their MS Phones to gain market share and they know it.
After using mostly Apple devices for years I was recently given a Nexus 7 2 and it really opened my eyes to the difference between the 2 systems. And it is definitely not what the article above talks about. Clearly that person has never used the Nexus, or probably, any Android.
My first experience with Android about 3 years ago was not good and I never thought I’d go back. But times changes….
I logged into my Google account and all my stuff showed up. I was able to download any app to my device from any computer. I setup Google Music and now have access to my music on any computer or any device. It is crazy easy.
My 3 year old printer is not AirPrinut compatible but works great with Google Cloud Print.
Getting photos from my 2 cameras works great. It doesn’t really work with iOS.
I think there’s plenty of issues with Android and certainly there’s an app issue. I think many things in that article are true. But the Nexus 7 shows that a pure Android device works really, really well and I think we’ll see alot more of them.
But the idea that Apple has mastered all those areas, especially the cloud, just seems ridiculous after my experience. And things like iPhoto being anything but a trainwreck is ridiculous. I’ve lost so many pictures through that stupid app over the years it is ridiculous!
I’m keeping my iPhone 5 but I am putting my iPad Mini up for sale. The Nexus just works better.
Currently using an iPhone 4 ,
Almost 4 yr old technology !!
The phone is smooth as smooth can be !!!!
And it’s on 3G !!!!!!
Unreal !!!!
I think these guys are high.
There are plenty of areas where Android is weak compared to iOS but the least of my issues have been making using of my device for the things they are talking about.