Customization is too obvious which is why I said to exclude that. I want to talk REAL features not unproductive things like changing launchers and theming stuff.
You said the 4S has all the features Android has. When I gave you a list, you either gave some excuse for why it isn't needed or some half baked work around to gain a slight resemblance of the same functionality. That said, let's address your responses shall we?
False. I can turn on and off gridlines, turn on and off flash, and turn on and off HDR. The software handles the rest for me.
Not false. You cannot make any adjustments to your camera. The most you can do is set it to HDR mode. You can't turn down the megapixels if you don't want to take an 8mp picture. You can't adjust the ISO if you want to (and no the iPhone doesn't always select the best ISO setting). You have absolutely no flexibility at all in the camera app.
What do you mean? I can send as many pictures in an email as I want.
I said you can't send more than one file type in an attachment in one email. Send a pdf and a picture in the same email. You can't. You'd have to send two emails to do it. In my line of work, that is unacceptable.
Apparently not for Android either. Adobe is phasing out it out and will be stopping new downloads soon. As Android is updated, it may not even work properly. Plus, you gotta use the default browser for flash. Chrome is built into the Nexus 7 and doesn't have flash. Even then you'd have to get a third party app for flash, which is dumb if you use Chrome.
Flash still works and is still available for Jellybean. Keep holding out hope...maybe it won't work in Key Lime Pie lol.
Unnecessary because the iPhone doesn't have an SD card or USB storage like Android phones. Just send it to your Dropbox, Google Drive, or Box.net accounts if you need something.
So because you can't do it, it's unnecessary? That's some interesting logic you've got there. Sending something to cloud storage doesn't do you any good if the computer you are on doesn't have an internet connection. In my line of work, we have to get computers up and connected. Sometimes that requires loading drivers onto a computer. I can't do that if I can't mount my phone as storage. Your method simply would not work. This is a great example of what I meant at the top, when I said you provided some half baked attempts at workarounds to gain something you hope would resemble the same functionality. It's not the same. iOS doesn't have this feature, period point blank.
True, but insignificant. Not a reason someone would buy an Android device over an iPhone. Plus, only 3 devices can currently do this out of the box. The rest have to be rooted for this feature.
You call it insignificant, I call it quite nice to have. The rest having to be rooted makes no difference. The bottom line is the functionality is available on the Android platform, whereas it isn't on iOS. Remember, you said iOS has every feature Android has.....that obviously was incorrect, as illustrated on this post and the one before it.
See above statement.
Are you referring to NFC? If so, NFC isn't widespread enough for this to be useful. How many times have you actually done this?
Living in a major city, I have used it many times. My doctor's office has Paypass, some gas stations have it at the pump, plenty of fast food restaurants, drugs stores, best buy, grocery store, and footlocker to name a few places I've used it. True enough it isn't mainstream, but I definitely use it. Also, this isn't about how widespread it is...again, you staid iOS has every feature Android does...again this obviously is not the case.
No, you can't. That isn't even close to being the same thing. Your solution really has nothing to do with tapping the phones. It's just a peer to peer app. Your solution requires you to upload the data to the bump server, and it be downloaded onto the recipient's device. That is hardly ideal. I could tap my phone against another Android phone and transfer a 1gb file in 3 min. Using your method (if bump even allows files that large), you'd have to wait a long time while that 1gb file uploads, then the recipient would have to wait for that 1gb file to download. Bear in mind you don't have LTE, so if you're on a cellular connection that's going to be one painfully slow process. Again, that's some half-baked attempt at replicating the same functionality to try to imitate an actual feature. Bottom line is iOS doesn't have that feature.
For integrating whatever app I want in the OS. What if I don't like the Facebook app? Maybe when I click share, I don't want to use the facebook app but instead want to use Friendcaster. Integrating any app I want into the OS allows me the flexibility of using what I want. So instead of being limited to Twitter and Facebook, I can have linkedin, friendcaster, or any other app I want. So from anywhere in the OS I can post to those things because it's integrated into the OS.
For what purpose? Give examples.
It allows apps to interact with each other. For example, I was using the facebook app and someone posted a picture of a statue that had some misinformation in the caption. I tapped the picture, tapped share, and tapped Google Goggles, which instantly scanned the picture I was looking at and returned results for the picture. This gave me the information I was looking for. My Facebook app and my Google Goggles app were able to work together and communicate to get my information I needed.
Yes I can.
Goodreader for iPhone lets me download and manage files (unzip, unrar, etc) and can even share them between Dropbox, etc. It's min purpose is for reading PDFs but it does this too.
Yet another half-baked work around to attempt to achieve something that is lacking in the OS. No that doesn't accomplish the same thing. I'm sorry but it simply isn't. Besides, the average person won't know to go get Goodreader, which is a pdf reader app, and use that as a workaround to download a file. As stated before, iOS is lacking the feature that's the bottom line. You said iOS has every feature when that obviously is not the case.
I think I've noted enough things to make my point, but here's a couple more for you: Send a file over bluetooth, Wifi Direct, Manage your data use, Allow any app I choose to use background data, and facial recognition (and I don't mean face unlock, I mean where your phone can learn people's faces, so if you take a picture of that person or have a picture of that person, your phone will know who they are).
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Please tell me how you would notice a difference between the A15 and A9. You keep bringing this up but the difference that an average consumer would notice is minimal at best.
The a15 is noticeably faster. On an iPhone you wouldn't notice the difference because you're only dealing with a grid of icons and no multitasking. On a system where several things can run concurrently and several things can be active on a home screen at once, the additional horsepower is ostensible.
2GB of RAM. That's a legitimate argument because more apps and such can be open. That's fine.
Right.
Screen size is a legitimate argument, but the fact that it was upped .3 inches isn't noticeable. Maybe the ppi difference between the S2 and S3 is, but that's all. The 4S still has the highest ppi.
It's actually quite noticeable. The 4S can have the highest ppi, however it's at the point that ppi makes no difference anyway. The thing you have to remember is over 300ppi the human eye can't discern individual pixels anyway, so anything over 300ppi is overkill. That said, the GS3 is 306ppi, over the 300ppi threshold, so the whole ppi argument goes out the window. 326ppi (iPhone) is no better than 306 (GS3), because after 300ppi the human eye can't discern a difference anyway.
NFC isn't anything amazing. It can only transfer data between another NFC Android device which is a downfall and isn't widespread enough for things like payments. iPhone will get it this year so maybe we'll see an increase is usage and NFC enabled places after it's released.
Yet, there are enough NFC enabled devices now where it can come in handy. Everyone in my household has an NFC enabled phone, and so do the majority of my relatives. At the 4th of July cookout, it was nice to be able to tap phones to exchange our new numbers and email addresses. That's much better than doing it manually. Regarding the purchasing part of NFC, see the above NFC related statement. Also, you're forgetting NFC also can be used for device automation. You can have an NFC sticker in your car cradle that turns on Pandora, turns up the volume, and puts the phone in "car mode", all by just sitting the phone in the cradle.
