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I think you can do the lock-to-one-app in iOS 6 already, random first google hit: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/10/01/how-to-lock-the-ipad...
Not too useful when that one app is a browser though that has all your identity in it. It's really only good if you want to let someone play a game and only that game.
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There is only one email app, not seperate apps for exchange / imap and gmail. The goofy mail experience was a big turn-off for me last time I tried switching to Android. The quality of apps on iOS is vastly superior to Android. This might be true on average, but in my case, I only really use a handful of apps with any regularity, and they all seem to be around parity on both platforms.
This hasn't always been the case. I've switched between Apple and Android about three times. The most recent time, just a few months ago, I stuck with Android. Because while the long tail of apps on iPhone look and work better, the top-100/top-200 apps an Android are roughly on par with those same apps on iPhone. Since those are all I use, the question turns to OS feature-sets, and Android has iOS beat on that front.…
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I think you can do the lock-to-one-app in iOS 6 already, random first google hit: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/10/01/how-to-lock-the-ipad...
Not too useful when that one app is a browser though that has all your identity in it. It's really only good if you want to let someone play a game and only that game.
They need to have a way to set defaults for different types of apps too, coming from android that's incredibly infuriating. Also intents. Oh, and fix the complete mess that is notification centre, it's so cludgy and awful compared to android - e.g why the hell can't I swipe away individual notifications? Why do I have to clear all or none of them * rage *. (I'm a recent convert to a 4S as I'm putting an app into the…
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I also want other software, Apple's weather app is pathetic and it would be great if something more accurate could show up in my notification bar. As for why I have an iPhone, mostly because the hardware is great, I get a lot of mileage out of the iPod functionality and I do quite a bit of mobile web development that having an iOS device is handy for (regardless of sales figures, I see a ton more iOS web traffic than…
The same could be said for Stocks, Game Center, Videos, Voice Memos, Reminders, and Newsstand. In my experience, I don't use these apps but they clog up my apps list. They should be optional - They could come pre-installed, but if I deleted them and wanted to re-install Apple just needs to make a Separate "Official Apple" tab in the App Store. The only App that arguably shouldn't be removable is "Settings". Even the…
Yet the problem with your phone doing all of this location-aware intelligence is that you wind up with the dead-battery he started his article out with. Whenever I read articles like this one I'm left wondering whether my life is distinctly different from most. I generally have a pretty good idea about my calendar - where I'll be going that day, and what restaurant I'll grab a bite to eat in if that's part of my agen…
Apple makes it very easy to create location aware reminders. So I don't think this is the problem you think it is.
Say I want to set up a reminder to pick up some dish soap next time I'm near my neighborhood grocery store. I could open the "Reminders" app and try to do it, but that only works if the store is in my address book for some reason or I know the address. Otherwise I have to search for the grocery store in Safari or Maps, copy the address and paste it into the "address" field for that reminder.
So I've learned my lesson - next time I open the Apple Maps app and search for my neighborhood grocery store, thinking I'll add a reminder from there. But you can't.
Software is super hard, and I get that, and I still love and use geofenced reminders every day. But this particular set of interactions is too complicated for, say, my mom - who just got her first iPhone (and smartphone) - to use, which makes it kind of a problem.
You don't get the cool springboard shortcut though.
I'd love to be able to actually replace Apple's apps with Google's. When I hit a link I don't want it to open in Safari, I want Chrome. Ditto with Map links. I want Siri to be replaced with Google Voice Search (and for there to be APIs that allow Google to fully replace Siri).
Siri is pretty great at the domain I use it on (directions, alerts, reminders, etc...) . Google Voice Search is not even close. Not quite sure why you'd want to replace it.
Google seems to have more intelligence when it processes your voice query--using Google Search results to help bring you the correct answer.
When Siri fails on me with multiple tries, Google will give me the correct query I wanted 99.9% of the time on the first try.