Just downloaded it - seems pretty slick so far. Very quick. I like Safari fine, but Chrome is a good bit faster. Kinda surprised Apple even approved it, but, hey I'll take it! My iPhone 4S just got a lot better.
Agreed, I look forward to ALL of the Google Apples (that are on Android) being placed on the iOS devices. Google lives on ad revenue and that will simply make the our iOS devices that much better.
Zz, speaking of privacy Apple is actively searching for any copyrighted content (legit or not) among your "private" files on iCloud, Google wouldn't dare to do so on Drive. Objectivity seems a lost cause with some people.
My turn for "am I missing something here" -- the timing of this GDrive release seems to be chosen to scoop up the folks (like me) who will be mourning the loss of the _very_ useful iDrive.
Would'a liked to be a fly on the wall in that Apple corporate meeting -- "Yes our plan is to tick off a whole lot of our customers who adopted iDrive as if it would always be there, with nothing to fill the hole. Then we loose a million iWork customers to some cloud services provider who gets their nose into the customer's tent with cheap cloud storage and a suite of attractive Office applications. Once converted to _real_ cloud computing, there is no adavantage to our expensive computers, so they go Linux or Windows on cheap hardware. Apple becomes the world's premier provider of expensive phones and tablets, a business that will never be undercut by a challenger. ;-) Yea, that's our plan!"
Agreed, I look forward to ALL of the Google Apples (that are on Android) being placed on the iOS devices. Google lives on ad revenue and that will simply make the our iOS devices that much better.
Safari has/had a private mode too, and Google ignored it. Found a way to circumvent that. Why should anyone trust incognito mode to actually work?
Google circumvented the browser's blocking of cookies overall, which has nothing to do with Private/Incognitio anything. No matter how you use your browser, if you have cookies set to never or 'only from first-parties', Google has circumvented that and is sending you cookies anyway.
It's only a browser people and an optional one at that - it's not life or death. I'm an Apple guy and like the iOS Chrome. The tabbing is soo much better than mobile Safari and cool how if you push-in from the sides it lets you push from tab to tab. If Apple put this tabbing into Safari it'll be a lot better. And what do I care if Google knows I'm looking at AppleInsider or ESPN or any other generic site. Guess you Privacy people never use Google for search, Gmail, or never used Google maps on your phone or computer cuz Google will know where your going (goodness not that!)?! I like it, some of you act like Steve Jobs personally christened your first born and you can never use anything without an apple logo on it. Firefox and Chrome are the only desktop browsers I use. Ghost.
I'm sure if I used Chrome on the desktop I'd be excited about this but I don't and this is just another browser. I've tried using Chrome on my Mac but I guess I'm getting old and set in my ways. I've got Safari set up like I like it and I'm amazed at all the negative comments regarding it. But I've got no agenda and I'll try out Chrome a little and maybe it'll grow on me but I don't see it bringing anything to the table that Safari doesn't already do (short of tab syncing which will be moot shortly).
APPLE BUSINESS MODEL
Product: Hardware
Customer: Consumers
GOOGLE BUSINESS MODEL
Product: Consumers
Customer: Advertisers
Why would I want to start using Google services on my iOS device? Google's MO is to harvest as much of my personal information as possible. No thank you.
It's amazing how many tech nerds have been duped by Google's "free" services and "open" BS. Nothing is free. You pay by progressively giving away your privacy.
It puts Safari to shame. And Google Drive is easily the best cloud storage out there right now. (Dropbox is a close 2nd)
So nice being able to work on my computer in Chrome and having all of my tabs being right there on my phone.
But I've had this for a little while thanks to my Galaxy Nexus (that's now running Jelly Bean!)
I now have my life on Dropbox. Even then passwords and so on are encrypted using 1Password. No way would I trust Google with any of this stuff. Let the people download Google Drive, like lambs to the slaughter.
Open Street Map. Stop using Google Maps today. Do you want how to drive down a street to be owned by a company, let alone Google? One day, will your car refuse to start because you stopped the auto-drive from displaying ads?
Crazy isn't it. I won't have that crap on my machine. Last time I tried. Little Snitch nearly blew up!
Yeah, LOL I recently installed Ghostery and my goodness, yeah, Ghostery might have melted my computer trying to fend off all kinds of nonsense. I mean, are the people out there making websites or just making tracking rubbish? No wonder you look at most websites on Retina and it's nonsense. I'm done with this industry, I think.
It's like the whole world finally caught up to the "promise of the web", like it's 1999 now, and they're bringing all the idiots from TV, print land, and real life just screwing everything up on the web now. Tell me you don't think so too. A place just for any self-conflicted teen to post themselves doing duck faces? Really? Tim Berners Lee invented the web for this? C'mon.
Open Street Map. Stop using Google Maps today. Do you want how to drive down a street to be owned by a company, let alone Google? One day, will your car refuse to start because you stopped the auto-drive from displaying ads?
One day, Google's self-driving cars will take people to fast food joints, electronics stores, and gentleman's clubs, without the consent of the driver, and won't leave until you buy something from them.
I access a website fairly regularly that just won't work with Safari (OSX or IOS) so I just gave Chrome a try. It works, now I have to figure out how to make it safe.
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Just downloaded it - seems pretty slick so far. Very quick. I like Safari fine, but Chrome is a good bit faster. Kinda surprised Apple even approved it, but, hey I'll take it! My iPhone 4S just got a lot better.
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Originally Posted by MaroonMushroom
Finally!
It puts Safari to shame. And Google Drive is easily the best cloud storage out there right now. (Dropbox is a close 2nd)
So nice being able to work on my computer in Chrome and having all of my tabs being right there on my phone.
But I've had this for a little while thanks to my Galaxy Nexus (that's now running Jelly Bean!)
My 25GB SkyDrive would disagree.
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My 25GB SkyDrive would disagree.
But you also have file size limits and 25gb is no longer free to new users.
Agreed, I look forward to ALL of the Google Apples (that are on Android) being placed on the iOS devices. Google lives on ad revenue and that will simply make the our iOS devices that much better.
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Originally Posted by jragosta
I fixed it for you.
Zz, speaking of privacy Apple is actively searching for any copyrighted content (legit or not) among your "private" files on iCloud, Google wouldn't dare to do so on Drive. Objectivity seems a lost cause with some people.
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Originally Posted by screamingfist
safari is to apple what IE is to microsoft. pure sh*t.This comment doesn't even make sense.
Take a logic course and an English writing course and come back later.
My turn for "am I missing something here" -- the timing of this GDrive release seems to be chosen to scoop up the folks (like me) who will be mourning the loss of the _very_ useful iDrive.
Would'a liked to be a fly on the wall in that Apple corporate meeting -- "Yes our plan is to tick off a whole lot of our customers who adopted iDrive as if it would always be there, with nothing to fill the hole. Then we loose a million iWork customers to some cloud services provider who gets their nose into the customer's tent with cheap cloud storage and a suite of attractive Office applications. Once converted to _real_ cloud computing, there is no adavantage to our expensive computers, so they go Linux or Windows on cheap hardware. Apple becomes the world's premier provider of expensive phones and tablets, a business that will never be undercut by a challenger. ;-) Yea, that's our plan!"
Google steals your information and intellectual property from other companies.
Facebook only steals your information.
I think you have the "half" backward.
How do you figure that in ANY sense?
Google circumvented the browser's blocking of cookies overall, which has nothing to do with Private/Incognitio anything. No matter how you use your browser, if you have cookies set to never or 'only from first-parties', Google has circumvented that and is sending you cookies anyway.
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Wording is different but say very similar things.
Now...how about them maps?
This deserves the high Thumbs Up it is getting.
I now have my life on Dropbox. Even then passwords and so on are encrypted using 1Password. No way would I trust Google with any of this stuff. Let the people download Google Drive, like lambs to the slaughter.
Open Street Map. Stop using Google Maps today. Do you want how to drive down a street to be owned by a company, let alone Google? One day, will your car refuse to start because you stopped the auto-drive from displaying ads?
Yeah, LOL I recently installed Ghostery and my goodness, yeah, Ghostery might have melted my computer trying to fend off all kinds of nonsense. I mean, are the people out there making websites or just making tracking rubbish? No wonder you look at most websites on Retina and it's nonsense. I'm done with this industry, I think.
It's like the whole world finally caught up to the "promise of the web", like it's 1999 now, and they're bringing all the idiots from TV, print land, and real life just screwing everything up on the web now. Tell me you don't think so too. A place just for any self-conflicted teen to post themselves doing duck faces? Really? Tim Berners Lee invented the web for this? C'mon.
One day, Google's self-driving cars will take people to fast food joints, electronics stores, and gentleman's clubs, without the consent of the driver, and won't leave until you buy something from them.
I access a website fairly regularly that just won't work with Safari (OSX or IOS) so I just gave Chrome a try. It works, now I have to figure out how to make it safe.