Google's services - Maps, search, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Now, and so on - are similar across platforms but not expected to be the same, perhaps because Google doesn't face compatibility issues with a desktop version of Android or a mobile version of Chrome OS. Sure, there's a huge gap between how Microsoft services and apps work across Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Phone. They see the Apple promise of a common computing fabric and get upset when they encounter a tear or hole in that fabric. Apple users experience the frustration precisely because the common apps and OS-level functions are almost the same. Persistent inconsistencies among the "same" apps between OS X and iOS - and sometimes across different types of iOS devices - are an ongoing frustration with users. | Subscribe to InfoWorld's Consumerization of IT newsletter today. [ All about iOS 7: How Apple's new iOS 7 management APIs change the game for business.
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They work increasingly the same across Apple's full range of devices - except when they don't.
It's even more evident in Apple's applications: Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Reminders, Notes, Messages, Safari, Maps, iTunes (if you include iOS's Music, Videos, iTunes U, and Podcasts apps as part of the iTunes family), iBooks, iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. You see that with the adoption of iOS-style gestures and text-entry shortcuts in OS X, as well as in iOS 7's adoption of the App Exposé-like view of running apps.
Each new version of iOS and OS X creates more integration across Apple's computer and mobile platforms, with a clear goal of treating all devices as optimized instances of Apple's integrated environment.
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