My iPhone is filled with default apps, and actually, that is type of the purpose

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I desire iOS native apps for aesthetic unity and ease.
Native apps work high-quality for non-critical duties, like checking the climate.
Apple’s user-friendly interface has led to my loyalty to iOS apps.

This is perhaps certainly one of my most unpopular opinions throughout the board, however I actually do get pleasure from iOS native apps. The Apple Climate app? In all probability my most searched-for choice. Apple Notes? My entire life is in there, really. Apple Maps? Undoubtedly the most popular take I’ve ever had can be siding with that navigation device 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 stunning walled backyard, or a prisoner of its ecosystem, as some would possibly name it, as a substitute. No matter it might be, I have been Stockholm-Syndromed into loving all my iOS native apps, and this is why.

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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 coloration. However, assembling a set of kitchenware from varied manufacturers is like downloading a variety of various apps that will not be as visually cohesive however would possibly provide extra specialised features.

Since I am not the very best prepare dinner, I respect the simplicity and great thing about the Le Creuset set — it does every 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.

Calendar icon, send icon, and messages icon.

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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 always commuting to and from the workplace day by day, I would most likely obtain a extra specialised climate utility to see if it could rain on a stroll to the morning prepare — a report all the way down to the minute would most likely 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 very least. If Apple tells me there is a 70% probability of rain “round” 3PM, I will most likely carry a raincoat to my 2:30 appointment simply to be protected. If it does not rain, no hurt, no foul.

The Activity feature on Apple Notes on an iPhone.

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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 once 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 keep 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.

Sure, I was a Pages apologist — emphasis on the ‘was.’ Now that I am not writing novels on my iPad mini and have a brand-new, attractive MacBook Professional, I a lot desire browser-based Google Docs.

Apple was the primary OS that felt approachable and accessible exterior a full-blown PC. In contrast to the clunky Windows desktops I discovered use within the faculty pc lab, Apple and iOS felt modern, luxurious, and, for lack of a greater time period in my pre-teen mind, magical. I like that my gadgets are cohesive and all of the purposes seem like they belong collectively, from their app icons all the best way to the expertise utilizing them on the whole.

Total, native apps get the job achieved. I have never run into any painstakingly private points with Apple’s trusty apps, and I frankly do not feel like sifting via the app retailer to switch all of them with third-party ones which are higher until I get a vibrant, glowing evaluate from somebody who thinks a specific app would change some particular facet of my life. Apple does not have an iOS native plant identification app but, do they?