Sure, you can open other apps and target applications with different link types, but you can't interleave functionality with nearly as much ease as in Android.

Sure, you can open other apps and target applications with different link types, but you can't interleave functionality with nearly as much ease as in Android. Any time you click a web link from an email, or a YouTube link from Safari you see this: the current app is backgrounded and there's no simple way for the two workflows to interact. This is a major difference between the two OS's and one advantage for Android, imo.