This list of stuff iOS users are missing out on is pretty good. But there’s also some really odd comments, especially since he’s using a Mac.
I didn’t know about Locale and that’s made me jealous.
I use it to change phone settings like 3G data, volume, and ringtone, based on conditions like location, time, Wi-Fi, plugging in headphones, and more. It’s fantastic.
This sentence made me laugh:
Swype feels just “magical” when the correct word pops up on the screen.
I realise he didn’t mean that Swype hardly ever gets the word right, but I couldn’t help reading it that way.
Android apps can register themselves for “sharing” and then they appear in the list of options to share a URL from the browser.
Inter-app communication is definitely something I’d like to see on iOS one day.
Drag-and-drop
I cringe every time I open iTunes on my MacBook to copy a song or movie onto my iPad.
It’s so much simpler on Android. I just connect my phone via Micro-USB cable and drag-and-drop files directly onto my phone in the Finder.
‘Drag-and-drop’ as an advantage of Android over iOS is amusing. I think iTunes sync is way superior to manually managing what music I have on my phone. I have a set of playlists that make sure I always have the stuff I want when I’m out and about, and also a selection of stuff I might like (e.g. new, or old). The times the iPhone is worst for syncing, is when it relies on drag-and-drop, e.g. for document management.
The same goes for photos. It’s a ton better for me to drag-and-drop photos onto my computer versus opening up iPhoto and “importing them.”
Photo stream is awesome. No thinking required.
I really love being able to spin up a hotspot on my phone when I’m out and about. I’m not a heavy user, but when I need it I’m really psyched to have it.
With iOS, I’ll end up using Tether or one of the other paid options for iPhone.
Wi-fi hotspot is a built-in feature on iOS.
