Google is a total mess on the iPad

The website is horrible and the app is worse. There's so many things wrong with it I can't take the time here to completely describe everything that is wrong. But navigation is horribly unintuitive. There are google plus reviews of businesses, but no search tool on the page, only a list of a few businesses when you hit the Local icon. I wrote a review on a business page and published it to the public. It didn't go on the business page, it only got listed under my reviews
There are no links to the classic or desktop version on most pages. And when you find a page that does have the link, the next thing you select puts you right back in the mobile version of the web page and it's worthless- hardly has any of the stuff that the real page has.
The app is ridiculous. It shouldn't even be called Google+, all it has is the rolling public blabs, you can't get to hardly anything except that.
Google Plus is one of the worst websites I've ever been on using an iPad.
The one useful thing (reviews of businesses) is just a clunky mess, and it's actually very useful as there are a lot of reviews, but it's so hard to use and unintuitive, and the navigation tools using an iPad are almost non-existent.

pgoodwin wrote:
This mostly just to let iPad users know that Google Plus is not iPad friendly, so maybe they wouldn't waste their time. Maybe it is misplaced though. If I could delete it I probably would.
Why can't you delete it? Do you know how?

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