IOS steadily catching up with Android

All of you have probably seen enough beta iOS 7, and especially impatient studied the mobile operating system of the body inside and out, install it on your iPhone. And you wonder why Android users looking at all innovations in iOS with a genuine smile? The fact that most chips, add to the seventh version of the mobile operating system of apple, a long time ago, there in Android. We offer you a visual comparison of a "new in iOS - old in Android», but do not do it for the purpose of zatralet especially sensitive, as well as for the overall development and the world a correct understanding of the current situation of mobile OS.

Shortcut menu

Let's start with a quick access to the main and most popular functions of a smartphone. Command Center is designed to give the user the ability to enable or disable Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, camera, flashlight, music and other necessary things in one tap. On Android, a similar shortcut menu exists with wild times 2.x versions and successfully works in the form of regular instrument in the current version 4.2.2. With the help of widgets from Google Play for this menu is altered as you wish, at any versions.

Notifications on the lock screen

On Android 4.x access to notifications from the lock screen is carried out by staff. Moreover, there is even a special category of widgets that are in a random order and the form are added to the lock screen.

browsers

A new mobile Safari learned display interface with all open tabs. Yes, in Safari, it's all very nice, but in Chrome for Android 4.x is also implemented more than a year ago. It looks different, but it works similarly.

multitasking

Fast switching between applications - is great. Apple even promised that their tool will analyze the activity of the user and based on it to optimize the mode of the application in order to save battery power. How all this will work in practice? We do not know, it remains to wait and see themselves, but at the moment there is in Android 4.x application manager, and work with it is also quite convenient. The transition to the application manager via the one-touch button system, which is always available on the screen.

post office

It may seem that the stock Mail app on your iOS stolen chips with gestures, swipe from the Mailbox. However, Gmail for Android it appeared much earlier.

The calendar

It is difficult to create any radically different from the other calendar. Still, this is a common grid with dates, times, and events with their color separation. It's amazing here is that a few weeks ago, Google rolled out an updated calendar application that well, very similar to what Apple has shown. There certainly implicated green nanorobots spyware.

leaving the menu

Apple showed floated from abroad navigation menu screen in applications such as Mail and iMessage. More interesting is that in recent months, Google had to introduce an element to all its mobile applications.

lock screen

They absolutely do not like. The similarity is seen only by those who want to see him with a view to confound Apple.

What else

Half-dead wallpaper. Apple almost came to live wallpaper, introduced in iOS 7 still images are shifted on the screen depending on the position of the device in space. Probably, the animation is waiting in the wings to appear in 7.1.

Auto-update apps. In iOS 7 it will be. I wonder why Apple pulled so long with this feature. Naturally, Google Play, such a possibility.

Search. Now search in Apple's Siri is through Bing. For Americans and other Siri will now be even less useful, and we are to do this is not the case. Russian Siri or not, but the Russian voice search and Google's entry on Android works.

Synchronization notifications. It is expected that Apple will teach notification synchronized between devices. Google is working on the same in Hangouts, and in the future it will be implemented at the level of the tool, available for developers of applications for Android.

AirDrop. Cool chips that showed Apple - iOS devices users can communicate directly without the need to "bampat" smartphones. Now, the same gesture that has to do with the NFC Android users, you can beat in a joking manner, however, there are more Android and Wi-Fi Direct, and it works similarly AirDrop.

Total

Apple are going the right way. It is impossible to ignore the beneficial innovation because they had emerged from a competitor. First the company must take into account the interests of our users, and users certainly like all these innovations, which, unfortunately, that they have the opportunity to enjoy a Android nick. In addition, in any case can not be accused Apple of stealing, because the stories are many cases when two or even the scientists themselves have come to some discovery almost simultaneously, without interfering with each other.

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