On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:49 PM, Sean Casey wrote:
> I was using Google's Chrome Browser earlier today on my Mac and iOS devices and I have to admit that it is, indeed, a cool feature. However, I look forward to Apple's implementation of the feature and UI to be thoroughly integrated in iOS 6. I was excited to try this feature between my Mac and iOS devices, but not enough to stand having to look at the blocky, rough graphics of Google Chrome on my Mac. I tried having Chrome as my default browser for a while today while cavorting around on the web and checking out the cloud-tab features syncing back and forth through Chrome on Mac and iOS. How did it turn out? > Well, I think that I lasted about an hour before I switched the default browser back to Safari. Sorry Google, couldn't do it--but thanks for the option. I finally hit a hang nail with Chrome when I tried to save a webpage as a .pdf file, which I happen to use quite often in Safari. For me, that did it. 'Click'--Safari as Primary Browser Restored. I felt a little weird afterwards like I needed a shower, like I had been unfaithful or something. It's kind of funny: the emotions and attachment tendencies that can arise out of a relationship with a Mac. To solitary Windows owners this may sound a little odd, but not to those with Macs. Certainly not. For some it's love at first sight. For others it simmers and develops over the years. But either way, genius and passion are a part of it. > …I digress. Apologies.>> I think Google has done a good job with it all in all through the Chrome Browser experience, yet I cannot shake how chunky and rough-edged the graphics experience actually is on Chrome. It's different than my personal experience of other Google Apps, especially the Google App for the iPad, which has, I think a very smooth and elegant UI. The Chrome App for Mac though is a very different experience that does not seem to jive well with other Google iOS App experiences on the whole. It stands to reason, I suppose, that more attention to design would be lavished on Google Products for iOS than Mac as per numbers alone, but here it's awkwardly obvious that this has been the case. I'll probably leave it on my machine (for now), but I doubt that I will wind up having much of a use for it. It's a nice idea though, albeit a design clash on the Mac.