*LTD*, I fail to understand how you can like Apple so much that you defend not only things that can't be defended but also, in this case, things that don't even need to be defended.
I've never really used an Android device, but from what everyone else is posting, it seems Apple has taken their idea for notification management and implemented it on their own devices, with only minor nit-picky differences that come along with the software running on different operating systems. We're agreed that no-one thinks this is wrong, because we've all been craving for something like this on our iPhones for a while. But you can't tell me Apple deliberately implemented the feature because they wanted to get back at Google. No, they did it because they believed Google had it right and iOS was clearly lacking.
And also, I'm fairly sure Apple's implementation isn't vastly superior, as you make out in your posts. It's just that you believe, in your opinion, that iOS is vastly superior to Android (and everything else).
As far as I can tell, notifications on Android and iOS are very similar; Apple liked the idea and implemented it in their own way and said idea improves both Android and iOS on their respective devices. Same goes, in a minor way, for iMessage and BBM with RIM. They copied in that acceptable away which only irritates fanboys of other devices.
