Perhaps what I meant to say is that iPhone is following Android phones' lead in many areas:
- Larger screens
- Power button on the side
- OLED
- Notification light/always on display
- Widgets
- Removal of home button
- Wireless charging
- Waterproofing
to name a few.
I didn't want to get into a "which is better" argument, but more point out that a lot of features that Android phones have started have ultimately come to iPhone - will some way of seeing missed notifications without waking the phone (or buying an Apple Watch) be one of them? As this is something I'd find really hard to live without.
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Ok, that's good to know. Maybe that wifi pop-up is set by default and all the people I see using their iPhone just haven't turned it off.
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Could you point to any of the discussions? I'd be interested to read.
I hate that the iPhone is essentially dead unless you wake it. I found I'd wake it to check for any missed notifications hundreds of times a day (it sits on my desk switched to silent most of the day and I'm always back and forth, so the notification light on Android phones stops the need to keep checking).
All smartphones follow a similar evolutionary path, you’re just concerned about who does it first which isn’t always relevant.
1. Apple did admit they were wrong and people did want larger displays, but not necessarily larger phones. I can attest to this. I love the screen size of the plus phones but hate the size.
2. The move of the power button to the side is to make it easier to reach, it’s very difficult trying to get a power button at the top of a phone that is very large in the hand.
3. Apple is very picky, they always have been. They believed the trade offs of having OLED in a phone was not worth it at the time.
4. I really don’t have anything to say on the notification light, it has never been an issue for me to look at my phone screen to see if I have notifications. Since I’ve had an Apple Watch, I use that to frequently check.
5. Widgets itself was stolen from Apple Mac OS. Widgets were never an Android idea. However I prefer the way Apple implemented it all on one page from the notification pull down, or on iPhone when 3D Touch some apps it displays the information you need. But I get that some people like Android implementation better.
6. The removal of the home button was in the making, it was necessary to make the front of the phone almost all screen.
7. Wireless charging standards were not up to Apple standards and still isn’t. Which is why they’re creating their own wireless charging mat with improved specifications that can charge 3 devices on a single charging mat. Unfortunately it has taken them this long to do it but it was necessary in order to do it right.
8. Waterproofing is here with the previous generation iPhones because design finally allow it. Part of the evolution of the iPhone.
There are plenty of things over the years Apple have innovated that android phones still do not have, Airdrop, 3D Touch, Taptic Engine, Apple Pay and more. They have awesome and unique hardware and software they have created for all of their products across the board. They are not hung up about who does what first and who gets their first, but who does it better and more meaningful.
