Best calendar for joint Apple/Android family?
#16
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What makes you say that Apple privacy policy is better than Google?
https://www.quora.com/Which-is-bette...e-or-Microsoft
https://decentralize.today/apple-vs-...r-a7022bd452b1
At the very core, Apple makes their money selling you a physical product. Google doesn't. Chrome is free, Gmail is free, Android is licensed free of charge to manufacturers and with limited exceptions, you don't buy your phone from Google. They make their money off your data.
You also can't quite compare an e-mail only account to a google account registered with your andriod phone which provides much more, though I had a quick look, if I try to create a gmail account or a yahoo e-mail account, yahoo requires me to provide a phone number, while gmail doesn't...
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My social media accounts are also 'limited' and I never post anything public, it doesn't mean Facebook don't have all my pictures and other info in their database, and they mine that data to show me relevant ads etc. etc.
No, it absolutely relevant to compare the info we had to give to create the accounts we have now with what we would be required to provide to switch. Why would I want to switch to a system that wants to track my every move on the net in order to have a working calendar?
You're assuming that all the various Google services are of value. To me, they're a d@mn memory wasting nuisance, not an asset. Like I said, I recently helped set up an Android phone, and I had to decline or hunt down a way to turn off at least 20 different things. No, the user of the phone does not wish to have Google know their location and where their friends are at all times! Big brother at its worst.
Well, you're looking for a calendar app to share a calendar between multiple devices, so unless you will build your own app, and have your own server somewhere in the internet hosting the data, you will have to share your calendar data with someone...
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A quick (google) search turned up something called Cozi. http://www.cozi.com/calendar/ I have no experience with them, but might be worth researching.
I've been happy with google calendar. I haven't found it to be something Google monetizes so obviously as they do search.
#20
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Absolutely. And if you don't like their privacy policies and you find apple calendar buggy, you'll have to look to other places, some of which you may need to pay for.
A quick (google) search turned up something called Cozi. http://www.cozi.com/calendar/ I have no experience with them, but might be worth researching.
I've been happy with google calendar. I haven't found it to be something Google monetizes so obviously as they do search.
A quick (google) search turned up something called Cozi. http://www.cozi.com/calendar/ I have no experience with them, but might be worth researching.
I've been happy with google calendar. I haven't found it to be something Google monetizes so obviously as they do search.
Because otherwise, there will be 20 other posts coming in saying "Google Calendar".
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A quick (google) search turned up something called Cozi. http://www.cozi.com/calendar/ I have no experience with them, but might be worth researching.
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I don't like Google, my past experiences with Google have been negative, I don't want to deal with Google, so repeatedly going on and on about it isn't helpful.
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While slightly OT, it is still part of the discussion, but I will stop now, and I will wish you good luck finding an alternative solution.