6
features that differentiate iOS and Android functionality
During the early days of
smartphone, you could tell Android and iOS apart from a distance.
Nowadays, it's not quite as
straightforward, given the number of features and ideas these two mobile
operating systems have borrowed from each other over the years. There are still
some crucial differences between them though. Here are the top six differences:
1 Default apps (Android)
It has been ten years since
the first iPhone launched and users still can't open links in anything other
than Safari (or emails in anything other than Mail, or pictures in anything
other than Photos) by default.Meanwhile, Android not only makes it possible to
swap out your default browser, SMS client, or anything else, it actually makes
it easy to do so. At this stage, it's unlikely that Apple will give third-party
apps reign over iOS.
2 Spotlight (iOS)
Google is the master
operator when it comes to searching, so it's a surprise that Apple's iOS-wide
Spotlight search is better than anything you can get on Android. Tap out a few
keywords and you get results on the web, in your contacts, from nearby
locations, in files on your phone and more. Google is getting slightly better
at this, but it's not there yet -and indeed Apple has a patent on `universal
search' which it made use of in its lawsuit against Samsung, which might be the
major reason Google lags behind.
3 Launcher apps (Android)
You can customise the
interface on an Android device down to the last pixel thanks to native support
for launchers, while iOS users are largely stuck with the same uniform rows and
columns of icons that have been in place since the beginning.
4 Continuity (iOS)
Say what you will about
Apple's bias towards its own software and hardware, but it certainly enables
some close integration between devices and platforms that Google just can't
touch at the moment. You can even copy and paste between your iPhone and your
MacBook these days, as long as they are running the latest versions of their
operating system.
5 Smart Unlock (Android)
A lock screen PIN code or a
fingerprint lock is essential for anyone interested in protecting their
smartphone, but there may be times and places when you feel you'd rather have
the convenience over the extra security and this is one area where Android is
ahead of its rival. Go to the Security and Smart Lock section of Settings on
stock Android and you can have your PIN code disabled by a particular place, a
connection to a device, a trusted face, a trusted voice.
6 iMessage (iOS)
i Message is not necessari
ly the favourite messaging app of every iPhone owner, but it is fair to say
that it does an excellent job of syncing communications across all of Apple's
products. Encryption is built right into the app too, and it's gotten more
lively with the introduction of the iMessage app store .
For a long time it seemed
as though Google Hangouts would be the answer, but that's now been shunted
aside for Allo -which is mobile-only for now, doesn't support SMS messages, and
doesn't turn on end-to-end encryption by default. Allo has poten .tial, but
that's about all it has at the moment
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