So do I get this right, you are hiking at night, need the flashlight to see, listening to a podcast, at the same time following turn by turn instructions (you do not want to fall off a cliff now,do you?) and text (one handed?) while having a phone conversation? And this, very common szenario, is not possible with the I phone?
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O.K., I also get the Texas spelling thing, as well as never needing to exercise....
But, since I am not from Texas, my scenario is this:
I go for a run or a hike after a day at the office:
I start Endomondo (a rather poor substitute, BTW, for the currently Android-only
Noom), which is not a "turn-by-turn" GPS app, but a popular fitness app which tracks your distance, speed, estimates calories burned, etc.. Then you can see how many times you were out in the last month or year, how many miles you have ran, how many calories you have burned, if you are getting slower or faster and so on.
I start a music app, or listen to a podcast.
Then, since it's often dark when I am in the park, I turn on a flashlight app.
On the iPhone, all the flashlight apps keep the screen on, which actually drains the battery significantly and it's annoying to have shining in your face. Apparently, turning the screen off while the app is running is deemed to be multitasking by Apple, so they do not allow it.
On the Galaxy Nexus, I simply turn the screen off. No battery drain. No annoying screen light in my face.
Now, I run or hike for an hour or hour and a half. During that time, I may get a call. Or I may get a text message to which I might want to respond. Or, I may want to send a text message to someone that I am meeting later on. Or, I may simply want to listen to something else.
The moment I want to perform any of these actions, I lose the light. And as I said, it's dark in the park.
So, if I had to call you for a few minutes during my run or hike, I have to stop and stay in one place, because the flashlight stops working on the iPhone.
If you think that this is such an unusual scenario, fine. But where I live, it's not so rare, really. I see a lot of people doing the same.
That's why I use the Galaxy Nexus for this.
Now, the iPhone is certainly a prettier phone. It's better designed and better made than the Galaxy Nexus. But iOS has been stagnant, while Google has been working hard to improve their OS. And it shows.
Apple needs to do better.