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I was scanning a small collection of The American Girl magazines from the 1940s. The magazines were kinda rough, so I was scanning by hand on a flatbed scanner instead of a sheetfed scanner. If I was using a sheetfed scanner I may have not seen the ad. For some reason this ad by Dell Tween caught my eye and it made me wonder when the word tween was first used. I Googled it and AI said it was the late 1980's. I hope they don't put AI in charge of the nukes. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

Now, I do tons of Google image searches. Tens of thousands over the years. So, image searches are a big deal to me. I'm a photographer and archivist. Photos are what I'm about and not text so much. So, this test only applies to image searches. Here is the history of a recent search for the IL killer. It just happened to be the search that set off this post. I missed what he looked like on the news, so I did a Google image search to see him / it . I've more or less always used Google and never thought anything about it. It is just easy, and I thought it gave the best results. Sure, I heard about all the privacy issues, but didn't care. Really, I like the popup ads as I archive them in my popup advertising Archive. I also welcome SPAM emails. Have over 400 of them...in the Archive. So, I'm on a different wavelength than most people. Apparently, Google results can vary quite a bit. And the exact same, repeat searches can vary greatly within a few minutes or seconds of when they were originally made. Here is the original search I made... I figured somethings gotta be wrong, so went to Bing... Then tried AOL search... I tried some Russian or China Search engines, but when they didn't respond immediately, I shut them down worrying about ransomware. Retried same exact Google image search as I started with and did better this time...but not by much... Then tried Yahoo search... I finished up with a repeat of original Google search... Crazy huh! I didn't time it, but all these searches were made within say 5 to 6 minutes.

I had this impression, and now it looks like a lot more than that, for some time now that the apps for iOS are either better or exist exclusively for it. I thought, at least in a case of one particular app, that somehow Apple secretly incentivizes that app's developers to always make it better for Apple's devices and that they might have some kind of a secret contract that slows down Android development in favour of iOS. Then a few days ago I typed into Google "why are apps better for ios". This popped up in one of the results (it's from 2015): Young people I talk to with Android phones have them because it was cheap, or free, and their goal is to buy an iPhone a year or two from now when they have the money. They settled with an Android phone and now they’re settling with clunky implementations of the apps their friends had before them on their iPhones. I’m building for iOS because I want to target users with taste and buying power. :lol: at the Prada bag and BMW comments! Not that it's not true. :ph34r: Not much change in the recent few years, although I could say an iPhone in this sense is not what it once was. Also, on the other hand, the competitors just can't take this crown from Apple, no matter what they do, it seems. I think that another result even said that Google's own apps are better for iOS. :lol: :blink: :ph34r: In that iMac Pro thread I saw that Android vs. iOS popped up briefly. So I was wondering what are your thoughts and experinces, likes and dislikes, when it comes to both of these operating systems and their possibilities. Why do you prefer the one you use?