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It's interesting to see that other people are noticing how poor the google web experience has become on iOS. It seems especially deliberate when I note that android & chrome use webkit.

I've even swapped the default search engine to bing because it provides a better layout, especially so for image searching which in my view is broken on iOS.

This from the company that just released tools to aid the transition to mobile web.

(and yes, I'm aware that they hate each other, but why should I be punished? reminds me of the MS from yesteryear.)

Also: there is general feedback that google's optional services are generally quite good, which makes it curious that the originally very good google search/image search was replaced with versions that aren't up to scratch.

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Anyone who thinks Google Docs is better on Android due to anti-Apple conspiracy clearly has never used Google Docs on Android.

Also, outside of Google Docs, Google has first rate support for iOS on the web. Gmail, Voice, Reader, everything runs brilliantly on iOS. In fact, usually better than Android, as they clearly see web as their primary in to iOS compared to Android (example: Voice is the snazzy HTML5 newness on iOS, while Android has the spartan 1995 grad student webpage styling).

I wouldn't call the mobile support in Reader "frist rate". Some of the UI elements (especially the "mark as read", "email", etc. links at the bottom of each post) are too small, I constantly expand the next post when trying to email one. A small detail, but one that drives me crazy.

No need to ascribe malice; the Google web experience is bad on Android too.

You Mac people are so entitled. Tell me this, how come I can't dual boot OS X on my Windows PC?

Let me dissect how this reads to me:

You <recipient of person who seems to be against my loyalist brand> are so <random ad hominem attack>.

Tell me this, <ignorant contrasting scenario with seemingly no knowledge that IT is more than just writing code for platforms> ?

I could sit here and list all sorts of analogous scenarios to the one you've questioned above, but I'd be wasting my time because you're not interested in that, if you were you could search for that information.

Now I ask you a question: Do you think your thoughts make a meaningful contribution to these forums? Perhaps you should consider somewhere with a one-sided bias if you're not comfortable hearing contrasting ideas and opinions from different minds. Perhaps you could gain maturity by being able to cope with the view points of others (which you're not going to change with such transparent arguments.)

And if you still don't get it: You aren't going to change my view point, the view point of others or any of these companies by acting like a troll, you're wasting your time and undermining the credibility of other comments you make on this forum.

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