1) A backgrounded app on iOS is usually suspended immediately and as such comparable to a cached app on Android, neither uses power. Both platforms allow apps t

1) A backgrounded app on iOS is usually suspended immediately and as such comparable to a cached app on Android, neither uses power. Both platforms allow apps to continue to run code in the background, both platforms reclaim memory from inactive apps. Android is more flexible when it comes to running several tasks in the background, iOS is slowly moving in that direction. 2) What do you mean by 'keep(ing) gobs of unused memory around'? Neither iOS or Android keeps 'gobs of unused memory around', both use inactive memory for caching purposes. 3) The same is true for Android. 4) This has already been debunked in this thread. 5) The same is true for Android. 6) More or less the same in Android. 7) This is where Android runs behind iOS in the default configuration. Alternative distributions (Cyanogenmod, Paranoid Android, etc) do offer more fine-grained control over services, as do extensions like the 'Xposed framework'. The device needs to be rooted to install the latter. 8) as does the Linux kernel... It does not make sense to portray iOS as superior to Android because it isn't. Both platforms have their idiosyncrasies, both have their strengths and weaknesses. Android is more flexible, iOS offers more fine-grained control over permissions. The latter can be retrofitted to Android, while it is hard - and against the EULA - to add flexibility to iOS. Both platforms show the intentions of their creators: Google wants to know as much as they can about their users, Apple wants to have their 30% cut of anything done on or through their platform.