Superior in what regard? Is it more secure than iOS? Better ecosystem? Overall better interface? And in Android's case, what version are you talking about specifically since Google doesn't encourage vendors to use the latest or to ensure their is an upgrade path for recent devices with and older version.
Note the expression "
in this regard" in my original sentence ("WinRT (and, soon, Android) is definitely superior to the pretty much stalling iOS
in this regard.")
As I've stated in prev. posts in this #, I don't consider the WinRT platform a mature one. While it has excellent split-screen multitask, the screen resolution of the first-gen WinRT tablets is plain unacceptable for me who won't use anything with worse resolution than a Retina iPad (or a Nexus 10).
As for iOS stalling, please illuminate. iOS 7 looks to be a strong upgrade to keep it relevant. I agree iOS 6 is stale & even tedious to use and look at but that is in the past. Forstall is no more.
I think saying Android (JellyBean) or Win 8 is superior to iOS is a bit of a hyperbole. It's also silly that these insidious "my OS is better than your OS" wars continue from back in the Mac vs Win days. If you drive a Honda do you also get upset because your neighbor drives what you believe is an inferior Toyota product?
1, again, I used "in this regard/respect" when comparing the OS'es. I haven't stated WinRT
as a whole is better than iOS. It isn't. This is why my private tablets are all iPads and haven't jumped ship.
2, iOS7 did receive some nice upgrades, that's right. (I've even published three full articles on the new API features of the camera here at MR - see
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/17491471/ for links if interested.) But it's just peanuts compared to what Android has received - and will receive in 5.0 if the rumors are true. (For example, windowed multitasking.) Actually, Apple lists / refers to some features as "new", while they were present in earlier iOS versions and, then, were removed (60 fps recording and anti-aliased iPhone 2x mode on non-Retina iPads, for example). I, as a power user, am not really interested in how an OS looks like, what color the icons are. The base OS stayed the same - with different GUI components and stock icons.
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1) HD content on a tablet? You'll hit the max quality pretty quickly. We're talking about media for portable devices, not your home cinema.
Why not? IPS screens are generally excellent when it comes to multimedia playback. And all current tablets have hardware H.264 decoders, which play 1080p movies (when in a correct, supported container) flawlessly.
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That is what Quasar was for right?
Quasar has the same multitasking model as the Backgrounder / Background Manager JB tweaks. That is, they allow any apps to run anything in the background. (Technically, they don't let the system call their app delegate's life cycle pause / terminate methods. This is why the apps just continue execution. If interested, I've posted quite a lot of additional info on the life cycle and what it means in the Background Manager # here at MR:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1586831/ )
iOS7's new multitasking features, on the other hand, in no way allow anything similar. Actually, they only allow for background Internet data fetching / refreshing and the like. Don't except to run any kind of code.
No to mention how good could be a drag and drop over from one app to another.
Yup, that's also a fine feature of WinRT's snap mode IIRC.
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As for iOS7 being stale, meh I find it funny that "flattening" icons is such a progressive step forward. To me it's just a huge waste of resources with all that graphic useless revamping they did.
Exactly. They could have spent all those resources of making a better API. For example, they could have provided us with better 720p60 recording, not the fully binned one. Or, wired(!) video playback in the background. The hardware is certainly capable of it.
