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It’s apparently not too bad in the US, but go outside of the US, and discover the appalling quality of Siri, of Maps, and the many Apple services that are not working (News) or half-working or not culturally adapted (Apple Music is super US-English-centric). After that, even if you continue to argue that “Apple is the Best”, you have a serious blindness problem. Remember, a week or two ago, when AppleInsider ran a story about how Apple’s lead was only in English-speaking areas ? Well, the finding didn’t surprise me. And even if DED repeatedly states that “Apple is better and Google is doomed”, what I see in real life is that people are using Google’s services because Google gives them the culturally and geographically-adapted information they need for their daily activities and leisure. I’m not implying that Google’s services are perfect, but they are at least usable and trustable. In my corner of the world, for instance, Apple Maps is still fraught with blatant errors after all these years. Do you seriously believe people around here are still using Apple Maps ? No way ! So dis as much as you want over Google (they certainly have their hardware continuity problem), the fact remains that Apple itself has major problems. Even if DED keeps on yelling that the others (Google, Microsoft and Nokia) have problems, it doesn’t settle or diminish Apple’s sirious problems.

(And, no, I am not a Google fan.)