Why is it so limiting?

[rdstoll]

I have nothing to hide, but it's nice knowing that Apple is ONE company who refuses to give in to our government's demands to know everything about everybody.

Do you honestly believe that? With this new Health app, favorite places, location based ads and tracking, and now text "prediction" keyboard that learns to what you type there is nothing that Apple doesn't know about you. And I just have to implore you to open your eyes if you believe they are not in kahoots with the gov't if the Feds want the information.

 

[ErikGrim]

Do you honestly believe that? With this new Health app, favorite places, location based ads and tracking, and now text "prediction" keyboard that learns to what you type there is nothing that Apple doesn't know about you. And I just have to implore you to open your eyes if you believe they are not in kahoots with the gov't if the Feds want the information.

Untighten your tinfoil hat and read: http://apple.com/privacy

Particularly this passage:

On devices running iOS 8, your personal data such as photos, messages (including attachments), email, contacts, call history, iTunes content, notes, and reminders is placed under the protection of your passcode. Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data. So it's not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8.

 

[MikeyMike01]

If you have to dig down to such incredibly small complaints, clearly you prefer iOS by a wide margin.

 

[ElectronGuru]

So got my iPhone 6 Friday after 3 years on Android. Love the smoothness of the OS and find the app experience way better than the same apps on Android but am a bit puzzled about some of the iOS limitations beyond obvious things like widgets on home screen, etc.

These two things tend to go together. The more open an OS, the more things can go wrong and the less smooth it will be. The less open an OS, the fewer things can go wrong and the more smooth it will be (when done by apple). You cant get the best of both but you can choose which pairing you prefer.

The thing to keep is mind is that these are choices, not inabilities. Apple could choose to open SMS but is unwilling to accept the drawbacks of doing so. The very same observations have been made about Mac vs windows, going back decades. Mac/iOS tends to attract people who prefer clean and reliable aggregation. Win/and tends to attract people who prefer customizable and controllable minutia.