Why Not Google?

Marco Arment:

  • Apple is always arrogant, controlling, and inflexible, and sometimes stingy.
  • Google is always creepy, entitled, and overreaching, and sometimes oblivious.

How you feel about these companies depends on how much utility you get out of their respective products and how much you care about their flaws.

Simply put, Apple’s benefits are usually worth their flaws to me, and Google’s usually aren’t.

Same here. I often agree with Marco, but on this piece, it’s almost like he was reading my mind. I don’t use Gmail, DuckDuckGo is my default web search, and the only time I’ve used Google Maps instead of Apple Maps in the last year is when I need transit directions in New York — and that might be changing soon.

★ Saturday, 30 May 2015