03-07-2013, 08:24 PM
Pam wrote:
You can copy/paste, voice dial, and the camera is great. I don't know about MMS or multitasking. The latter is something that has never affected me.
Right, as I noted. Those were formerly weak points in the iOS platform, but Apple kept tweaking, which is a good thing. On the flip side, we can list a lot of problems in the early version of Android which have likewise been fixed/added with later versions. Are there still holes? Sure. Gremlins that annoy? Yep. Yet, Android has grown to be so much better, so quickly, the gap between iOS and Android is not great. In fact, some of us find more problems with iOS than Android at this point. As noted in the article.
I remember really wanting to like Android when it first launched but it took until Android 2.x for the platform to mature into something I would say was truly competitive with iOS. Despite my desire for Android to succeed (linux kernel, semi open development, not locked to one manufacturer or carrier), I ended up with iOS (iPod touches, not iPhones) as my first long term experience with either platform.