Why I prefer iOS to android

[matttye]

This is true, but I believe matttye's point was that the install was automatic to all devices, assuming you've configured them to accept that. I agree that's a plus, although, unless you have many devices, it's not all that hard to install individually from the web. Still... an "install to all my devices" button would be nice.

Yeah that's what I meant The same can be done with books and music too.

Ok. It is not automatic in Playstore. If I am not mistaken the following is not possible with iCloud, but on Playstore you can add multiple accounts and all apps registered to those accounts are aggregated and listed in the "ALL" category. You select just select them here and install to you Android devices without searching for those apps again. And with this you can maintain separate primary a/c for each of your devices and still share your apps easily.



This is only one example to show why it is better not to bake "core apps" into the OS e.g. browser, contact etc. Android architecture is much more flexible as you can upgrade core apps separate from the OS.



All the android devices that I have, Google Talk is preinstalled. Newer ones have Google+ as well.

That's the difference between iOS and Android: Android's cloud features mainly utilise the cloud rather than your local storage. For example, Dropbox and Google+ both send photos to their respective services but not your other devices. You would then need to download those photos to your other devices. This is fine, but it's sometimes good to have files stored locally in case you are without a net connection, and not everybody has unlimited data. With iOS, you can take a picture and have it sent to all of your other devices immediately (including PC).

Okay I get what you're saying now. Android's sharing API is far superior to iOS. I think that it could still work with some baked-in apps though. Messages, email, etc, could be baked in, but then Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc (non-essential apps) could be left to the individual developers.

I may be thinking of custom ROMs I installed where Google Talk wasn't there. I kinda prefer the Google+ messenger anyway as you can copy and paste from that!

Something I missed in your previous post:

"Well, the rest of the 80% of smartphone users in the world can't do iMessage."

Switching between iMessage and text messaging on the iPhone is seamless. It will send iMessages whenever possible, and text messages otherwise.