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Does iOS 7 have any features that Android 4.2 doesn't have?

I used to think iTunes was great, until I switched to Android. Now I understand how cumbersome it really is.

iOS has seamless backup to iCloud. Pros and cons. If you switch to a non-ios device, you'll never get that data back. Big con. Can't view your photos. Only restore. Using dropbox is so much better.

iOS has find my iPhone. There are android apps, but not as easy/nice/builtin.

iMessages sucks because it's platform dependant. Apple will eventually lose this battle.

In short, I think apple is all about apps and google is all about webapps. Webapps rule. Trying to download iMessage/iTunes on my work computer is a non-starter -- but I have gmail, so I can use hangouts.
 
Daveoc64 said:
Slow hardware is slow hardware.

You can't say that Android only works well on new hardware, then say the exact same thing about iOS and have it be a con for one platform, and a pro for the other.

If it's only reasonable to expect good performance on the latest iOS device (i.e. one that's no more than a year old), then you can't really complain about the same thing on Android.
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The iphone 4 is not slow hardware. my fav iphone ever is the iphone 4 in fact. It's the one with the best redesign and its thunder was essentially stolen by the 4s, which is more or less a carbon copy.
 
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iCloud is the ****tiest cloud service out there.

- No proper file management
- Can't be used without Apple devices
- Very very comical internet access
- "It just works" nonsense actually doesn't work
 
FlatlinerG said:
I think iTunes is definitely something to brag about. Sorry for being "fan boyish" but iTunes completely changed the music industry. The fact that this service is designed to work with iOS is a pretty great selling point.
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iTunes is a great advantage iOS has over Android.

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Faux Carnival said:
iCloud is the ****tiest cloud service out there.

- No proper file management
- Can't be used without Apple devices
- Very very comical internet access
- "It just works" nonsense actually doesn't work
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I use iCloud just for back up. Sometimes when I need some documents stored in the cloud so I can open it up on another Mac. But other than that iCloud needs some more improvement.
 
Faux Carnival said:
iCloud is the ****tiest cloud service out there.
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Especially if you ignore all the ones that are worse!

- No proper file management
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Because different is bad.

- Can't be used without Apple devices
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Except for the parts that can.

- Very very comical internet access
- "It just works" nonsense actually doesn't work
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Very eloquent and well supported argument. Can't argue with this part. :D
 
nestafaria said:
I used to think iTunes was great, until I switched to Android. Now I understand how cumbersome it really is.

iOS has seamless backup to iCloud. Pros and cons. If you switch to a non-ios device, you'll never get that data back. Big con. Can't view your photos. Only restore. Using dropbox is so much better.

iOS has find my iPhone. There are android apps, but not as easy/nice/builtin.

iMessages sucks because it's platform dependant. Apple will eventually lose this battle.

In short, I think apple is all about apps and google is all about webapps. Webapps rule. Trying to download iMessage/iTunes on my work computer is a non-starter -- but I have gmail, so I can use hangouts.
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Google is about advertising. Thats why you can get an android for free.
 
Ease of use
all applications run the same way on the devices.
A real upgrade program and not being stuck on one version because your phone is 1 year old.
 
TennisandMusic said:
But iTunes is incredibly poor software these days, and Google Music is "designed to work with Android", and does so amazingly well. It also works on the web. Buy, organize and listen to your music from anywhere.

iMessage is basically a worse version of Hangouts.

Android is very stable.

The Parallax background was there last year.

Almost none of the stuff they added was new. You could say maybe Airdrop but sharing files over an app is of course possible in Android.
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How do you play music from Google Music on your stereo like a home stereo not your car?

iMessage is nothing like Hangouts you can't get SMS in hangouts don't know what your talking about or you have no idea what iMessage actually does.

Glad they finally made Android stable guess the beta test is over. Too bad you can't say as much for all the apps.
 
The big ones for me are AirPlay, iMessages and Photo Stream (which has enabled my entire family to share and discuss photos from around the world, including pics from the archives which my grandmother has been scanning and posts to a shared stream) ... Living in Japan, iRadio is also huge because it allows me to use my U.S. iTunes Match account for ad-free streaming music without having to use a VPN, which is truly awesome.

Edit: Can't believe I forgot it, but FaceTime has also been amazing - I can see my grandparents from 6000 miles away without them having to sit in front of the computer (difficult at their age) and without having to pre-arrange the call (having to sign into some app or whatever). Love it!
 
Proper push support for apps, without having them open and running.

Locked to a user account and can't be restored without the password.

This are the two big ones that I know of. There are lots of small differences though.

I like that iOS7 doesn't sell my metadata like google does... not sure thats a feature or a business model though...
 
appleisking said:
He's asking if ios 7 has a feature that andorid doesn't. I think you switched that around. NFC is not on ios 7 but has been on android for years now.
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NFC isn't an Android feature, it's a hardware feature.

Anyways, iOS 7 has AirDrop, which uses WiFi Direct (which is 10x more efficient than NFC for file sharing), and as far as I know, while there are Android phones that support NFC, there's no Android phone that has an AirDrop system, at least not without the help of 3rd party apps/tweaks.

There's also Do Not Disturb, Passbook, there's the all the Accessibility options (which Android has always been horrible on), so there's a lot of features iOS has that Android doesn't.
 
FreeState said:
Proper push support for apps, without having them open and running.

Locked to a user account and can't be restored without the password.

This are the two big ones that I know of. There are lots of small differences though.

I like that iOS7 doesn't sell my metadata like google does... not sure thats a feature or a business model though...
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Apps don't have to be open in Android to receive pushes...
And Android phone can't be "restored" without the Google password :confused:

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chrf097 said:
NFC isn't an Android feature, it's a hardware feature.

Anyways, iOS 7 has AirDrop, which uses WiFi Direct (which is 10x more efficient than NFC for file sharing), and as far as I know, while there are Android phones that support NFC, there's no Android phone that has an AirDrop system, at least not without the help of 3rd party apps/tweaks.

There's also Do Not Disturb, Passbook, there's the all the Accessibility options (which Android has always been horrible on), so there's a lot of features iOS has that Android doesn't.
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Stock Android does not have Do not Disturb but Touchwiz on Samsung devices do.

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CTHarrryH said:
Ease of use
all applications run the same way on the devices.
A real upgrade program and not being stuck on one version because your phone is 1 year old.
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All midrange and up Android phones get upgrades for at least a year...

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appleisking said:
The iphone 4 is not slow hardware. my fav iphone ever is the iphone 4 in fact. It's the one with the best redesign and its thunder was essentially stolen by the 4s, which is more or less a carbon copy.
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The iPhone 4 has slow hardware comapared to even a midrange phone released today.
 
IFRIT said:
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Stock Android does not have Do not Disturb but Touchwiz on Samsung devices do.

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All midrange and up Android phones get upgrades for at least a year...

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The iPhone 4 has slow hardware comapared to even a midrange phone released today.
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No current iPhones don't need quad core/octa core to be fast. And brand new android phones carry old versions of android. I can post a graph of the percentages of androids that are outdated. Right now 1.2% of android devices have the current version of android.
 
darster said:
Airplay is better than anything Android can offer.
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I completely agree. I can't believe how many Bluetooth speaker docks there are, obviously to satisfy the diversifying market, but damn the quality is terrible.

IF Apple completely went to ****, airplay would be one feature that would keep me holding on for a while longer.
 
Yes,

Visual voicemail, built-in, not as an app.

AirPlay, built-in, not as an app.

Find my iPhone, built-in, not as an app.*

* It's not necessary to have the app installed to have the coverage.

Please don't tell me that iTunes is bad. Compared to what? There's Apollo, PowerAMP, Now Playing, Google Music, etc but pretty much NO phone has a better stock music player than the iPhone. EQ controls? Yeah, because people are too cheap to invest into proper earphones.

I have an $80 prepaid Android phone, it's no different to my $300 Android phone besides the screen size. Heck, it even has the better looking screen. Runs just about everything too, except the stuff that is too big for its screen. No lag either, and the spec aren't even remotely impressive.
 
chrf097 said:
NFC isn't an Android feature, it's a hardware feature.

Anyways, iOS 7 has AirDrop, which uses WiFi Direct (which is 10x more efficient than NFC for file sharing), and as far as I know, while there are Android phones that support NFC, there's no Android phone that has an AirDrop system, at least not without the help of 3rd party apps/tweaks.

There's also Do Not Disturb, Passbook, there's the all the Accessibility options (which Android has always been horrible on), so there's a lot of features iOS has that Android doesn't.
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Your initial point is irrelevant. For all intents and purposes we are comparing the iphone to other high end android devices. The iphone does not have NFC, the android devices do. Not that I'm a fan of NFC, I think it's completely useless as of now. 2nd this is a troll thread more than anything else, and I regret having contributed anything.
 
One thing that I don't think has been mentioned is direct updates. We get annual updates from apple.

On most android phones the updates come through the manufacturer, this delays the roll out. I see people aching for the next OS update but they have to way for HTC/Samsung/Motorola.

I like the idea that there's no middle man getting in the way. Its not really a feature per say but its an advantage that apple has over the phones.

What has been mentioned is that phone makers also have to decide if they will update the android phones and the way the models roll out every few months many may not even get the update - HTC One S as cited in the prior post is a great example
 
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