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While Google & co were still sorting out the Honeycomb mess I got an iPad and here are my day to day gripes about iOS, most of which apply to both iPhone and iP
by blinkingled 14y ago
While Google & co were still sorting out the Honeycomb mess I got an iPad and here are my day to day gripes about iOS, most of which apply to both iPhone and iPad :
1) Turn by Turn Navigation - can't really think of living without it or paying for it. I've used it on Android quite extensively and it really is a solid product. For mere 29Mb and even with spotty rural data connectivity I got through 750 miles of navigation recently. Priceless thing to have on phone and even the iPad for people like me who hang it in their minivans.
2) Better multitasking - Android 4.0 multitasking is another neat thing - the clearly labeled / visible thumbnails of apps and easy ability to get rid of them comes in very handy. The way iOS does it is complicated.
3) Widgets - enough said!
4) Bigger phone screen - 4" seems like the minimum, all soft buttons will afford more screen real estate.
5) Better memory management - My background apps aren't killed as many times on Android whereas even with the upgraded RAM iPad 3 reloads Safari pages at least couple times a day.
6) App to app communication ability - Intents/Contracts style.
7) Better iPad notifications - eliminate alerts altogether and make the notification window span greater horizontal area on the iPad.
8) Bundle more useful apps with the OS - no alarm clock shipped with the OS, no podcast app for the iPad. Wtf?
9) iTunes sync is still very flakey - wired or wireless. I don't remember when it worked on its own the last time.
10) Swype - license Swype stuff, pretty please :)
11) Constant nagging for passwords for App updates - this bugs me a whole lot especially since I have a stronger password. Once I've setup a screen lock - this is fairly unnecessary.
I guess it would just be easier to stick with Android - by many accounts ICS is very usable on newer tabs, so may be I will try the Transformer TF300 out instead of waiting on iOS 8.
- swift 14y agoI totally agree with most of this list but I just wanted to let you know that the iPhone does indeed include an alarm clock, and many other time-related utilities, as part of the Clock app. I don't have my iPad here with me, but if I recall correctly this and a couple of other useful apps are inexplicably absent on the iPad.
- blinkingled 14y agoNot having used an iPhone recently I missed that Clock app was there - but yeah weird that it is missing on the iPad along with calculator!
- 2muchcoffeeman 14y agoThe first thing I do when my iPhone alarm goes off is reach over, pick it up and start mashing for the snooze button. Can't do that with an iPad.
- MrFoof 14y agoThe iPad does not have Clock, Weather, Stocks, Calculator, Voice Memos or Compass. However, the iPhone does not have Photo Booth.
- falling 14y agoI fail to understand why people ask for these simple utilities to be included. I find it interesting that on one side you see people complaining about apps they cannot remove and on the other saying that they are sorely missing. (to be clear: the two sides are not iOS and Android, just different people)
- matthew-wegner 14y agoA lot of people cook with recipes displayed on their iPads; a timer is super useful there. I guess the clock app is out because it demands another background process? Who knows with Apple.
- falling 14y agothere is plenty of clock apps with timers in the store.
- yumraj 14y ago+1million on Swype. I have an Android phone, DroidX, and can't even think about typing without Swype now. On my iPad on the other hand, I constantly groan when I have to type one letter at a time.