Google starts fighting back from inside iOS

26. Lucas777 posted on 15 Aug 2012, 22:33 6 10

its only a good one if their chrome browser develops a little more… i prefer safari over anything else currently because it gets the job done without any hassle… chrome os is more visually appealing, but it is not as reliable and useful as safari-- and the ios app is different than the android one unfortunately…

I hope google keeps their open-mindeness though and allows this to be an option… because switching between browsers constantly is highly annoying

hopefully they update and smooth out chrome a bit more before pushing this agenda

30. 305Bucko posted on 16 Aug 2012, 00:43 5 2

your kidding right? We ARE talking about the safari on iOS right? Im confused because Chrome OS (that you made mention of) is an actual operating system hence the name.

The safari browser lacks SO many things that im not even gonna go there. Im just gonna hope I misunderstood your comment because you clearly have not used the Chrome browser on iOS long enough to snap out of it.

P.S. I own both Android and iPhone and currently have my iPhone Jailbroken to use Chrome as the default browser. If I had to use a stock iPhone... I wouldnt.

41. Lucas777 posted on 16 Aug 2012, 02:03 2 2

my bad-- i was typing quickly and said os… i said browser to begin with so i am sure you could figure it out :)

No i have used the chrome browser… it is good, but safari has the reading list feature that i like and i prefer a combination of full screen (via jailbreak) and the quick access of the blue bars on safari-- chrome browser has a lot of potential and is very good, but it needs to be developed more to equal its android counterpart

ya i used chrome as stock for a while, but i prefer regular safari with fullscreen mode and a download manager…

i dont need to "snap out" of anything… i viewed the merits of both apps and safari works better for me-- it syncs bookmarks and reading lists with my mac-- i dont use google chrome every day on my computer as safari (although not as good in performance) works with macs much better (obviously).. but desktop browsers are a whole different story

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59. HäckeMáte posted on 18 Aug 2012, 17:37 1 0

the fact that I can click on the url and type anything and it will search is good enough for me.

Plus infinite tabs
Plus I can pick up where I left of on my PC
Plus... I cant believe any of this has to be xplained...

its better hands down.

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60. Lucas777 posted on 18 Aug 2012, 20:57 0 2

i prefer having the dual search bars personally… but that is preference and i will be sad if safari changes that

ive never used more than 5 tabs so i really dont know how many safari can have

i use safari on my desktop so I can pick up where i left off,

plus, i cant believe u dont realize not everybody uses google everything

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63. 305Bucko posted on 19 Aug 2012, 20:38 1 0

I cant get my mom to stop using AOL so believe me when I say that I KNOW not everyone uses google. But you use safari?... on a PC...? really...? I mean I would use Mozilla Firefox, OR Opera before using safari.

btw safari on iOS doesnt have "dual search bars" they have 1 address bar and 1 search bar. which is unnecesary when you can do both in one, but you are probably one of those ppl that still type WWW as a prefix before the domain.

PS. FYI safari supports up to 8 tabs. I KNOW OVERKILL RIGHT? *sarcasm*

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65. Lucas777 posted on 19 Aug 2012, 21:21 0 0

i dont type www… haha i like seeing a larger list though and having it separated… otherwise all the sites get in the way while i am searching-- just my opinion

and i use a mac.. not a pc.. safari links with everything much better and works well with icloud-- i use chrome sometimes but safari for almost everything (which most mac users do)

u are just full of assumptions huh..

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64. HäckeMáte posted on 19 Aug 2012, 20:45 1 0

Bsides everything that 305 covered, one thing that drives me nuts its that I have to tap the address bar twice (the 2nd tap has to be acurate since you have to hit the "X" riiiiight on the spot) THEN I can type another site. With Chrome its one time tap ANYWHERE on that large searchbar, and the entire URL becomes hilighted for you to immediately start typing over it.

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35. anywherehome posted on 16 Aug 2012, 00:59 4 1

yes! The iPhone will soon become another Google phone....as it almost already is :-D
without Google is the iPhone just a little toy for toddlers....with Google services is now for teenagers :)

37. Mxyzptlk posted on 16 Aug 2012, 01:12 2 6

I don't see how this is good. It not only shows how much of a monopoly Google is when it comes to its services but it also shows how even Facebook and Twitter do not want to associate with Google because of how they favor their own social media Google+ even though Twitter and Facebook are way more popular and better.

Google is also hurting themselves because they're going to end up causing themselves to get banned off the App Store for such behavior.

38. anywherehome posted on 16 Aug 2012, 01:30 5 3

banned? you want to make an iPhone a non useful phone? :)
so do not use the Google services, it is easy :)

yes, Google is hurting himself because he innovates? so then Apple is the best company in the world :-D

43. Mxyzptlk posted on 16 Aug 2012, 03:09 2 6

I don't think the image of the trojan horse is sending a positive response you know.

There's many other services available besides Google.

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45. anywherehome posted on 16 Aug 2012, 04:05 3 2

trojan? :-D
do you want to live in a world where you can not decide which browser you want to open after a click in your email?

ok, welcome to iPhone, iPad world.....there it is so ;)

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61. mattkl posted on 19 Aug 2012, 20:09 0 0

This makes me laugh because you talk about Google wanting to make a monopoly, and then you talk about taking choice away from Apple users and making them use Apple products only. Funny stuff.

I think Google should get banned from the App Store so iPhone iPad iEverything products get gimped even more. What Google is doing is legal and good since it gives more freedom of choice.

If Apple was better than Google then Android users would want iThis iThat on their Androids, but you won't see much of that. The facts don't lie. Opinions aren't facts.

19. MichaelHeller posted on 15 Aug 2012, 21:01 11 1

It isn't like Google is exploiting the system. This is functionality that Apple wrote into the code

21. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 15 Aug 2012, 21:13 4 3

Of course they wrote it, it's part of iOS. I doubt they intended this to happen though.

53. MichaelHeller posted on 16 Aug 2012, 10:32 2 0

By writing in code that allows apps to refer directly to another app, exactly what other intention could there be? If Apple wanted to use this code only for themselves, it wouldn't be public, but it is.

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32. 305Bucko posted on 16 Aug 2012, 00:46 3 2

narrow minded much?

40. Quezdagreat posted on 16 Aug 2012, 01:50 1 3

No are you? All of you guys think google is the best thing happen to the world.

I bet everything in your life is google based fanboy

48. PhoneArenaUser posted on 16 Aug 2012, 08:21 2 2

"All of you guys think google is the best thing happen to the world."

We can talk about girls, cars, fishing, hunting, sports, nature and so on... but it is phonearena.com and here we prefer to talk about mobile and other technologies. Don't need to go offtopic...

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50. Quezdagreat posted on 16 Aug 2012, 09:25 1 2

I thought google had something to do with technology. How am I off topic?

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56. Quezdagreat posted on 16 Aug 2012, 10:58 1 3

wow I just got a warning from PA for using the f word, but I bet no one get warned for using "sheep" get outta here

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62. mattkl posted on 19 Aug 2012, 20:13 0 0

You don't know better until you try it. I use to love Apple only until I tried something else. I still have respect for Apple, I can't make an iPhone, but if you aren't my parents, then you generally like Android better due to the fact you can actually configure everything to "your" liking, not there's.

36. 305Bucko posted on 16 Aug 2012, 01:11 1 0

they dug themSELVES in that mess. Google told them not to make it so similar. (not that I agree with apples bogus lawsuit)

besides Google has Motorola to worry bout ;)

20. joey_sfb posted on 15 Aug 2012, 21:09 3 3

one iTroll busy giving everyone a thumb down. LOL!!!

24. MISTER.H (banned) posted on 15 Aug 2012, 21:54 4 3

I wonder what's wrong with those iTroll today, there on a march. Or angry or pissed.

33. 305Bucko posted on 16 Aug 2012, 00:48 3 2

One iTroll with 2 phonearena accounts lol

34. 305Bucko posted on 16 Aug 2012, 00:49 1 2

I think thats just how you perceived it in your head. Everyone else just thinks its funny that Google thought of this.

54. MichaelHeller posted on 16 Aug 2012, 10:34 0 0

Who said anything about doom?

29. PhoneArenaUser posted on 15 Aug 2012, 23:51 3 1

LOL! :D

57. MichaelHeller posted on 16 Aug 2012, 16:39 0 0

I had never tested out Browsermark before, just ran it on my Galaxy Nexus (running JB) in Chrome and got 98,632. Sunspider was 1904ms

So, as I said in the article, anyone that interested in Chrome and Google should probably be on Android anyway. Maybe iOS users won't care so much about what Google does.

58. MichaelHeller posted on 16 Aug 2012, 16:46 0 0

Woo! 111,412 on the Nexus 7!

Of course, I also just noticed you ran it on an iPhone 4. Anyone out there have a 4S for comparison? Maybe even someone running iOS 6 beta?

I've heard the iPhone 4S on iOS 6 beta can crack 100,000 on browsermark in Safari.

66. notor posted on 20 Aug 2012, 05:37 0 0

Yes, iPhone 4s has browsermark of 109145 with iOS 6 beta 1& sunspider of 1751.3
However the question here is how does chrome performs on iOS & that is below power so we have to wait a little till the performance is also at par with safari on iOS

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