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Something I thought about earlier that would be nice: automatic geofencing based on my interests. So if I'm on vacation and I mark "burgers" as an interest, I get pinged when I'm close to a popular burger spot. May already exist but didn't take the time to look.
1) Turn by Turn Navigation - can't really think of living without it or paying for it. I've used it on Android quite extensively and it really is a solid product. For mere 29Mb and even with spotty rural data connectivity I got through 750 miles of navigation recently. Priceless thing to have on phone and even the iPad for people like me who hang it in their minivans.
2) Better multitasking - Android 4.0 multitasking is another neat thing - the clearly labeled / visible thumbnails of apps and easy ability to get rid of them comes in very handy. The way iOS does it is complicated.
3) Widgets - enough said!
4) Bigger phone screen - 4" seems like the minimum, all soft buttons will afford more screen real estate.
5) Better memory management - My background apps aren't killed as many times on Android whereas even with the upgraded RAM iPad 3 reloads Safari pages at least couple times a day.
6) App to app communication ability - Intents/Contracts style.
7) Better iPad notifications - eliminate alerts altogether and make the notification window span greater horizontal area on the iPad.
8) Bundle more useful apps with the OS - no alarm clock shipped with the OS, no podcast app for the iPad. Wtf?
9) iTunes sync is still very flakey - wired or wireless. I don't remember when it worked on its own the last time.
10) Swype - license Swype stuff, pretty please :)
11) Constant nagging for passwords for App updates - this bugs me a whole lot especially since I have a stronger password. Once I've setup a screen lock - this is fairly unnecessary.
I guess it would just be easier to stick with Android - by many accounts ICS is very usable on newer tabs, so may be I will try the Transformer TF300 out instead of waiting on iOS 8.
While Google & co were still sorting out the Honeycomb mess I got an iPad and here are my day to day gripes about iOS, most of which apply to both iPhone and iPad : 1) Turn by Turn Navigation - can't really think of living without it or paying for it. I've used it on Android quite extensively and it really is a solid product. For mere 29Mb and even with spotty rural data connectivity I got through 750 miles of naviga…
Something I thought about earlier that would be nice: automatic geofencing based on my interests. So if I'm on vacation and I mark "burgers" as an interest, I get pinged when I'm close to a popular burger spot. May already exist but didn't take the time to look.
While Google & co were still sorting out the Honeycomb mess I got an iPad and here are my day to day gripes about iOS, most of which apply to both iPhone and iPad : 1) Turn by Turn Navigation - can't really think of living without it or paying for it. I've used it on Android quite extensively and it really is a solid product. For mere 29Mb and even with spotty rural data connectivity I got through 750 miles of naviga…
I totally agree with most of this list but I just wanted to let you know that the iPhone does indeed include an alarm clock, and many other time-related utilities, as part of the Clock app. I don't have my iPad here with me, but if I recall correctly this and a couple of other useful apps are inexplicably absent on the iPad.
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I totally agree with most of this list but I just wanted to let you know that the iPhone does indeed include an alarm clock, and many other time-related utilities, as part of the Clock app. I don't have my iPad here with me, but if I recall correctly this and a couple of other useful apps are inexplicably absent on the iPad.
Not having used an iPhone recently I missed that Clock app was there - but yeah weird that it is missing on the iPad along with calculator!
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It's opt-in, is it not? Phones are very personal devices, and if you don't want yours to be that way, then don't use the feature. Honestly, the biggest reason I want it is for things that apps aren't allowed to access anyway: a global control on the Springboard to disable WiFi, or change screen brightness, for instance.
Apple has never been a company that believes in opt-in. Rightly or wrongly (and, to be fair, usually rightly), it's a company that believes you having the choice to do something it thinks is dumb is a bad idea.
Not really seeing why Gruber thinks Win8 "contracts" are "richer" than Android's intents/content providers. They're pretty much identical (though "contracts" has a much clearer name).
He missed one, IMHO: apps which can live on the springboard or the lock-screen. I'm not anticipating that Apple will do these, mind you, as it complicates their simple UI scheme, but it's a clear advantage for Android power-users. I'm hoping that they plan on making a big push on cross-app communication. I also hope that they're investing in their platform from an e-commerce perspective: paid upgrades, trials, video…
A million times no. The Android homescreen is incomprehensible to me as an iOS user and the main reason is the clutter and weird alignment.
While Google & co were still sorting out the Honeycomb mess I got an iPad and here are my day to day gripes about iOS, most of which apply to both iPhone and iPad : 1) Turn by Turn Navigation - can't really think of living without it or paying for it. I've used it on Android quite extensively and it really is a solid product. For mere 29Mb and even with spotty rural data connectivity I got through 750 miles of naviga…