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iOS5 = catchup from Android OS
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Doesn't matter if they're playing catch up to me. As long as I get the features. Now I don't have to switch to andriod
Yep nothing major at all!!...im due to upgrade all my 27 iphone4's in a couple of weeks,sorry apple nothing there to keep me,a few of my employees are using Android phones as their own personal phones as well as there company iphones,so i'll be having a word to find the best android model i think...very very underwhelmed,that was a load of overhyped rubbish im afraid!
What were people expecting?
iOS is fine for me, the updates will make it nicer. Sure, there is always room for improvements, but it seems people always expect a 'be-all-end-all' type update^^
iOS is fine for me, the updates will make it nicer. Sure, there is always room for improvements, but it seems people always expect a 'be-all-end-all' type update^^
Oh yeah... I forgot Android had it's own dedicated messaging client. How silly of me to have forgotten.
They are still revising Honeycomb (3.x), but the features it added were resizable widgets, limited USB host for keyboards/mice/game controllers, enhanced Wifi profile settings.
They haven't disclosed what Ice-Cream will have (4.x?)... but Android has always offered all of the cloud stuff and cross-device messaging that apple is including.
The Air drop feature is something that Google doesn't currently offer.
Android? You mean the operating system that still has stability issues, viruses, and crashes every other app?
Apple may have some similar UI features, but at least I can trust that Apple's OS is stable.
Apple may have some similar UI features, but at least I can trust that Apple's OS is stable.
stable? then why do my apps sometime fail to even load or just crash out of the blue? This has been an issue on every iphone/ipod touch I have had...
i think people were expecting an updated Maps overhaul. lets be real here, 'Maps' on your iPhone is not a navigation app. its very limited in features, compared to Google's Maps/Navigation app. (in Android, Maps/Navigation is one single app).
the implementation of notifications is still subpar compared to that of Android, but I am going to wait until i get a hands on to really see how effective/ineffective it is.
Android has had Widgets since Day one, It had free syncing of Calender and contacts and instant email. It had its great notification scheme since day one and It has had lock screen info for a while. This adds really no new features to the platform. I think apple is losing their spark.