Apple is a company that loves to have its own system of everything, and of course an essential part of the system is the special Apple applications that come with every iPhone or Mac device, but in many cases we search for external applications to replace Apple applications, perhaps because we want more features. Perhaps for the sake of change only, but with the reasons that push you to change ... there are several reasons that push you to use Apple applications.
The system
Well, this is the most obvious and famous reason ... Getting out of the use of Apple applications may mean leaving the system and entering competing systems as you do when you use Google office applications or the Google cloud here, things get a little more complicated, despite the availability of Google applications for Apple systems, but they are not integrated with the system as The same is the case with Apple applications, so you have to deal with two systems and reconcile between using this and that, but we were able to reconcile these programs for a long time, right? Many of us use the Google Cloud and its programs on the iPhone and Mac, so I personally was (and still am kind of) doing it, so what are the other reasons for using Apple's programs?
Updates are important
Every year, Apple comes with an update to its operating systems, and with these updates comes updates to the applications by adding new features or improvement in the design, whether these additions are large or small, they are often tempting, but what is the benefit of continuous photo application updates and the i-cloud photo library and I use a photo program The Google? Also, what is the benefit of updating the Mac that saves large amounts of storage space using i-cloud and integrating the entire desktop with the cloud while I use the Google cloud storage? This was really annoying to me since I've been using Google Drive for a long time.
Back is difficult
Let's say now that you like me liked the large storage capacity provided by Google for photos and you stored a lot of your photos on the service, then Apple comes to update the image applications dramatically for several years in a row as it has improved a lot of i-cloud services for Mac and iPhone and now you want to buy capacity ICloud storage just got better price but Boom! You depend on Google to store your files and pictures! Despite this, you start using the Apple product to find that transferring all files from the Google cloud is not that easy .. I had to download a lot of them to be re-uploaded to i-Cloud via my devices, but the biggest problem was in the pictures! The final solution was to keep the Google app aside, along with the Apple app, and basically use the Apple app as I could not transfer all the files from Google .. so I return to it with the older files and browse the new on the Apple app.
Of course, external applications are not from Google and Microsoft only, but there are hundreds of alternative applications that you will find difficult to change if you want to, either because you are accustomed to them or because of the proliferation of data in them and the difficulty of transferring them to Apple applications.
the benefits
There are also many benefits to using Apple's own applications, as we mentioned integration and continuous access to updates, but some Apple applications are already performing better than their competitors and more smoothly, so we can take the example of the mentioned Google Cloud that was not well integrated with the Mac and the iPhone even after downloading the applications. Ad hoc ... As for the Apple Cloud, he does not need to do anything with it. Everything on the devices resides on the cloud, and on the Mac, you find the least used files stored in the cloud and located in their natural place on the Mac, similar to a shortcut or zip file, and once pressed, it is obtained from the cloud and displayed immediately. Wonderful isn't it? Also, when you use competitor apps (free) from Google, Microsoft, etc., you are technically at their mercy and they can place ads as much as they want, scan your images to generate better ads (in the case of Google) or make the top features driven by large subscriptions such as Microsoft Office or even the notes program Evernote. Who has increased prices and reduced free content several times before .. As for Apple, you have already paid a great deal of value for the devices and then get everything (almost) for free, as you would like to remind us of Apple at every conference. Maybe you just have to pay a little for the storage capacity of the cloud if you need that space Of course we wish cheaper storage capacities than Apple, but that's another story.
Conclusion
Of course, there are a lot of external applications that are tempting, whether in features or even because of their attractive advertisements, but when making one of them basic instead of an application developed by Apple, several factors must be taken into account, so is this the application that I want to use always? Do I absolutely hate the apple app? Am I ready to give up on system ease or upcoming updates? Answer these questions and know that returning to Apple applications after a while is not easy .. Then you can make the best decision, whether to stay with Apple or use an external application.
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