Google Makes My Life Harder Posted on August 8th
“I like my new iPhone a great deal. I especially like good apps. For instance, the Yelp app rocks; it uses the "current location" feature of the iPhone to show me stuff nearby (such as restaurants). And it's Yelp, which I already use a lot, so it includes user-contributed reviews and info. The Yelp app takes something I love and use from the Web and makes it available and awesome on the iPhone. Easy, specialized, familiar, fast, localized, all things I like in a mobile application. Why can't Google do the same? Google's iPhone versions of Gmail and Google Calendar are awful. I used both on my Blackberry, and I have new issues. First, they are not standalone applications. I have to go through Safari to ...”Technology I could use
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