{"id":13906,"date":"2012-12-04T09:06:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=13906"},"modified":"2012-12-04T09:11:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:11:29","slug":"why-i-had-to-take-chrome-off-of-my-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/why-i-had-to-take-chrome-off-of-my-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I had to Take Chrome Off of My iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"CNET writes<\/a> that Chrome has gained a foothold in mobile but is a no show on the iPhone. Its not hard to understand why most users don’t give it a try but I went so far as to install it on my iPhone was forced<\/strong> to remove it. Not only did it not do what I hired my mobile browser to do – or rather what Apple taught me a mobile browser should do- which is to allow me to easily share web content, it inserted itself into Google products at inappropriate times and places. I was continually and inadvertently opening it from within Plus even when I didn’t want to.<\/p>\n

I actually use and like the Google+ app on my iPhone with but one caveat – it doesn’t allow sharing to any other communication service; not Twitter, not Facebook, not Texting and not even email. What is social content for but for sharing? I read a lot and Google+ , Twitter and my feeds (I am probably the lone user of Google’s Currents iPhone app) have become a primary source for discovering interesting content. I share this reading with my wife via email, via text to my kids, to my peers via Twitter, etc. etc.<\/p>\n

You get the picture. I share it. As should be done with social content. But the Google+ app only allows<\/a> me to share a story to my Google+ circles.\u00a0That is unless I open the content in Safari and then share it from there. Thus the sharing workflow on my iPhone was to find an article in Google+, open it in Safari where I might read it now or later and then share it from Safari to anyone and everyone that I thought would find it interesting.<\/p>\n

The was until I installed the iPhone Chrome app. It inserted itself \u00a0in the Google+ app front and center just above Safari link. I would have left Chrome on my phone for research purposes and the occasional use but I kept inadvertently opening it when I wanted to open Safari. Even that would not have been a problem except… Chrome, like Google+, supports no social sharing.<\/p>\n

I find Google+ to be a useful and valuable addition to my phone. It sits on the limited real estate of my front screen. Yet it, like Chrome, manages to disrespect a fundamental core feature set of the iPhone. \u00a0I often wonder how it is that Google, with such brilliant engineers, programmers and (now yes) designers manages to get it wrong.<\/p>\n

Was it a business decision to limit sharing to Google only products? Or was it just an oversight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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