Which services are best for all platforms: Google, Microsoft or Apple?

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Poll Which services are best for all platforms: Google, Microsoft or Apple? (15 votes)

Google 53%
Apple 0%
Microsoft 33%
Other 13%

I'm asking because I have a ton of devices, and also, a ton of accounts from those platforms. Gmail account from Android; iCloud from iOS/OS X; and Outlook (or hotmail) from Xbox years ago, which also goes well with my Windows 10 PC which, by the way, I'm dual booting alongside Ubuntu. And I have a ton of devices - 3 Appple products (including an iPhone), an Android device, 2 Windows devices and other devices I use to demonstrate Linux (exclude the Ubuntu one). Perdonally, I love Apples cloud services, because it blends well with my iPhone (and MacBook and iPad), but I find it hard when I'm on, let's say, Ubuntu Linux and iTunes isn't available unless I use Wine, which doesn't work all the time.

So, which one do you think I should use? I thought about Apple, but again, I'm afraid iServices (like iCloud) won't work well on other platforms.

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#1 Tuzolord
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Google for phones, microsoft for pc/laptops and apples for food.

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#2 Dogswithguns
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Google all da waeiy...

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#3 Mordant221
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For gaming and general PC use, Windows. For everything else, Google. For your mum and grandma, Apple

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#4 remiaw
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all are horribly terrible

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#5 lordlors
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@mordant221 said:

For gaming and general PC use, Windows. For everything else, Google. For your mum and grandma, Apple

As they say, an apple a day keeps the doctor away.

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#6 Freeskill
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Google for me, Microsoft is not there yet if we are talking about phone OSes. Apple is just to closed for me.

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#7 urbangamez
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microsoft and google

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#8 osan0
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maybe switch to dropbox for cloud storage? that works with every platform so you are not tied in.

after that its just a gmail account and a hotmail account by the looks of things. i think you can use your gmail email address for MSN services also. i mean i have one email that is used for all services (live, PSN, steam etc). could be worth looking into.

once thats done it looks like you are free to use whatever platform you wish.

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#9 FelipeInside
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@remiaw said:

all are horribly terrible

So what do you use?

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#10  Edited By BassMan
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I like what MS is doing with uniting all devices under the Win 10 platform. I have a Windows phone (950 XL) as my personal phone. It works great with my desktop PC. I also use Google services on it as I previously used an Android phone. Unfortunately, I was recently given an iPhone 6 as a work phone. It is shit and I refuse to use any Apple services.

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#11 remiaw
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@FelipeInside: All of the above. Think I just was in a bad mood yesterday

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#12  Edited By skipper847
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Microsoft but if they try and take on steam like they said then I am buying a Nintendo and mac.