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This is perhaps one in all my most unpopular opinions throughout the board, however I actually do take pleasure in iOS native apps. The Apple Climate app? Most likely my most searched-for choice. Apple Notes? My entire life is in there, really. Apple Maps? Undoubtedly the most well liked take I’ve ever had could be siding with that navigation instrument over Google Maps and Waze (nicely, for the most part).

It is not iOS’s apps — it is me. I am infamous for being content material in Apple’s lovely walled backyard, or a prisoner of its ecosystem, as some would possibly name it, as a substitute. No matter it could be, I have been Stockholm-Syndromed into loving all my iOS native apps, and this is why.

Why I ‘settle’ for iOS native apps

It is not as a result of I feel they’re higher

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A few causes: aesthetic, ease, and a happy-go-lucky mentality that all of it simply actually is not that deep.

iOS apps have an aesthetic designed to go collectively. It is akin to proudly owning a whole set of Le Creuset kitchenware in the identical colour. However, assembling a set of kitchenware from varied manufacturers is like downloading a variety of various apps that will not be as visually cohesive however would possibly provide extra specialised features.

Since I am not the most effective prepare dinner, I recognize the simplicity and fantastic thing about the Le Creuset set — it does every thing I would like with out complicating issues, and nonetheless at a top quality. I choose the uniformity to the gathering of extremely specialised however mismatched gadgets, particularly since cooking is not my forte. I am going to depart the specialised instruments to the skilled cooks.

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Bringing it again to iOS, I am not utilizing any of the native apps (like Climate, Notes, Compass, and so forth.) for something that may have a life-or-death affect upon my every day life. If I used to be continuously commuting to and from the workplace day by day, I would in all probability obtain a extra specialised climate utility to see if it will rain on a stroll to the morning prepare — a report all the way down to the minute would in all probability decide whether or not or not I ought to seize an umbrella and even change my outfit.

iOS ‘simply works.’ It is a easy interface that I am fully comfy utilizing, and it isn’t just like the outcomes are earth-shatteringly particular, in my world at the least. If Apple tells me there is a 70% probability of rain “round” 3PM, I am going to in all probability carry a raincoat to my 2:30 appointment simply to be secure. If it would not rain, no hurt, no foul.

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The place all of it started

Earlier than an iPhone was even in my fingers

I purchased into Apple’s ‘it simply works’ mentality again once I had an iPod Nano, first-gen iPad mini, and iPod contact — all earlier than I even snagged an iPhone 5s on my thirteenth birthday. There was one thing so futuristic and Star-Trek-like about Apple’s UI, and the user-experience was one thing that straight up revolutionized my studying, writing, and leisure at a younger age throughout the board.

I keep in mind when Apple Notes was that god-awful yellow with the black ‘handwriting’ typeface. I adored the notepad-like attraction, and no matter did not go into the unique Notes app went straight into Pages on my iPad mini.

Apple was the primary OS that felt approachable and accessible outdoors a full-blown PC. Not like the clunky Windows desktops I discovered the right way to use within the college pc lab, Apple and iOS felt glossy, luxurious, and, for lack of a greater time period in my pre-teen mind, magical. I really like that my gadgets are cohesive and all of the purposes appear to be they belong collectively, from their app icons all the way in which to the expertise utilizing them on the whole.

General, native apps get the job achieved. I have never run into any painstakingly private points with Apple’s trusty apps, and I frankly do not feel like sifting by means of the app retailer to exchange all of them with third-party ones which might be higher except I get a vibrant, glowing overview from somebody who thinks a selected app would change some particular side of my life. Apple would not have an iOS native plant identification app but, do they?

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