So even though I've had a mac and iphone for almost four years, I've basically been using all google software on them. When I installed mavericks I decided to try out the "apple ecosystem". The new safari really is quite a bit smoother and less battery intensive than chrome. I still don't like how it displays tabs, and apple really needs to use chrome's three finger gesture for switching between them, and also update the UI to match its ios7 counterpart. But other than that, very impressed. I like how gifs don't kill my browser anymore. Also switched from gmail to using the apple mail application and it works really nicely. I love how I get notifications outside of the browser. Really fast as well, unlike the clunky gmail web app and iphone app. Makes me wonder why I never bothered using it. Finally, I love the imessages app. After I synced my contacts through icloud, my macbook basically became an extension of my iphone with regards to text messages. Super cool.
I used to laugh at people who didn't want to switch away from mac or ios because of breaking the ecosystem. But after trying it for a couple of days, I can see why people are hesitant to do so. Apple really does a good job integrating their software between devices.
