My iPhone is stuffed with default apps, ...

This is perhaps certainly one of my most unpopular opinions throughout the board, however I actually do take pleasure in iOS native apps. The Apple Climate app? In all probability my most searched-for possibility. Apple Notes? My complete life is in there, really. Apple Maps? Positively the most well liked take I’ve ever had could be siding with that navigation software over Google Maps and Waze (properly, for the most part).

It isn’t 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 may name it, as a substitute. No matter it might be, I have been Stockholm-Syndromed into loving all my iOS native apps, and here is why.

Why I ‘settle’ for iOS native apps

It isn’t 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 shade. Alternatively, assembling a set of kitchenware from numerous manufacturers is like downloading a variety of various apps that will not be as visually cohesive however may provide extra specialised features.

Since I am not one of the best prepare dinner, I admire the simplicity and great thing about the Le Creuset set — it does every little thing I would like with out complicating issues, and nonetheless at a top quality. I desire the uniformity to the gathering of extremely specialised however mismatched gadgets, particularly since cooking is not my forte. I will 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 on.) for something that may have a life-or-death impression upon my day by day life. If I used to be continuously commuting to and from the workplace each 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 right 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 utterly 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% likelihood of rain “round” 3PM, I will in all probability carry a raincoat to my 2:30 appointment simply to be secure. If it does not rain, no hurt, no foul.

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The place all of it started

Earlier than an iPhone was even in my arms

I purchased into Apple’s ‘it simply works’ mentality again after 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 bear in mind when Apple Notes was that god-awful yellow with the black ‘handwriting’ typeface. I adored the notepad-like appeal, 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. In contrast to the clunky Windows desktops I discovered use within the faculty laptop lab, Apple and iOS felt modern, luxurious, and, for lack of a greater time period in my pre-teen mind, magical. I really like that my units are cohesive and all of the purposes appear like they belong collectively, from their app icons all the way in which to the expertise utilizing them typically.

Total, native apps get the job executed. 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 switch all of them with third-party ones which are higher until I get a vibrant, glowing evaluation from somebody who thinks a selected app would change some particular facet of my life. Apple does not have an iOS native plant identification app but, do they?

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