God what an awful and ridiculous thread this is.....
Such predictability in the responses its like many of you don't have any original thoughts of your own.
Then you turn around and bash Apple for "copying".
Here's a rundown of the "major" features released at Google I/O 2013:
-Play Games (Game Center)
-Added functionality to Google Now (things like reminders, alarms - stuff Siri already had)
-More "fluidity" (Project Butter has been a DIRECT play at obtaining iOS-like smoothness)
-Geofencing
-Added dev tools and APIs (to compete with the iOS dev environment)
-Play Music All-Access (got it in right before Apple's keynote and the iTunes Radio - same ideas, vastly different implementations though)
-A stock high-end flagship (fragmentation fighter?)
All-in-all, most of the things Google released at I/O this year were either direct competition and response to something Apple already had or was rumored to be releasing (iTunes Radio).
Where were all of you crying about "copying" after that presentation?
The fact is, neither company "copies" because they implement similar tasks. Each OS is independent with a vastly different base and philosophy behind it. Can we please stop the idiotic double-standards and comparisons about who was "first". Newflash - there are only so many things to do on a smartphone and a finite number of ways to accomplish those tasks.....there is going to be some overlap - especially as we enter the smartphone's maturity.
We can like the products of each company without emulating the childishness they sometimes show with these ridiculous lawsuits. I know everyone in this area loves to make a huge deal about Apple's lawsuits, but Samsung is suing Apple for using 3G tech......really?
All these companies do this. Unfortunately, frivolous lawsuits have become part of the industry and even more unfortunately, the real lawsuits and breaches of IP are lost in the shuffle.
But just because this happens on their level doesn't mean we have to act like moronic d***s and put down the users of the other platform. Its time to grow up and get out of your mom's basement (I mean that figuratively, though maybe literally to some).
If you are one of the people stuck on the fact that Android has had live weather animations for years, Android is for you. You are the person who cares about a laundry list of features and whether or not you get them before anyone else. Try to realize, not every one thinks like you. And you aren't going to be able to understand the reasons why some of us prefer iOS.
Instead of acting like you know everything and berating those of us excited about iOS 7 based on your own narrow views on what makes an OS great, just go hold your Android phone tight and leave us alone.
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I'm actually going to miss the old way of switching programs, with the icons on the bottom of the screen. The new way mimics Android, except it's horizontal instead of vertical, but I never liked it, I found it much easier to pick out programs by the icon, not by a screen grab which was confusing to me at times. I'm also confused why some media are calling it "true multitasking"? Isn't is the same exact thing they have now only with a different graphical representation, and having it as a screen grab instead of an icon?
I also like the home button, I hope they never do anything as horrid as the onscreen buttons in Android, I much prefer the androids with a hard home button like Samsung has. Just makes it easier to do things one handed, in the dark, etc.
Not to point you out or anything spinedoc, but your post illustrates a problem with many others here who either don't read or choose not to read the actual features and info.
Before accusing iOS 7 of being uninnovative or the same, how about actually being informed on the features they listed (which weren't all the features in iOS 7 by the way.....I've seen some people complain that we're only getting 10 new features.....Hair Supply clearly stated that's all they had time to show and that there are a host of other features).
I know you're an iOS guy - don't be like these Android rejects. Comb through the iOS 7 pages on Apple's website.....I had to a few times to take it all in. There's a lot going on behind the scenes in both iOS 7 and OS X mavericks that add a lot more functionality.
maybe something like the trackpads on macbooks.
