It isn't relevant. There are literally hundreds of features iOS has that Android doesn't, and vice versa. Cherry-picking one thing something has over the other is ridiculous, these are competing products that fortunately aren't pretending to be one another and instead offer refreshingly different user experiences. That's very unusual for the industry, let alone any industry (I'm looking at you, automobiles) where everyone just copies one another to deliver basically the same product.
I mean, we'll have to stop soon now. Just like we eventually stopped raking them over the coals for not implementing meaningful notification management at some point after they copied the Android notification shade. And we've NEVER mocked them for copying the display notch off of LG's V20. We can be charitable.
But soon is not now. We can point and laugh for a while yet that it took them fourteen years to get past "that Windows machine in your high school with so many files saved to the desktop that they completely covered the screen and fell off the edge into oblivion."
Bubba? Wow, that's not something you see people using as a name due to the various implications and stereotypes associated with it in modern times. Interesting.
WebOS did, and it had widgets. Apple's borrowed a lot from it - the swipe an app up to close it was one of the first things they borrowed. I'm quite used too the way it works now though, I already have my apps in groups by type, so it will be interesting to see how this ends up working.
The weird thing is that Apple had desktop widgets with its Dashboard thing in Mac OS X 15 years ago, and never transitioned them, even as an idea, to the mobile platforms until recently.
Do you think they will eventually copy the android style? I know they are late in the game to update things, but when a new update does come out it seems to be very similar to the Android style in my opinion.
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shabby - Monday, June 22, 2020 - link
Whoa widgets and an app drawer, only took like 14 years to implement.Bubba2020 - Monday, June 22, 2020 - link
Whoa, still using a 14 year old Apple bash.windywoo - Monday, June 22, 2020 - link
It's still relevant Bubba.Samus - Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - link
It isn't relevant. There are literally hundreds of features iOS has that Android doesn't, and vice versa. Cherry-picking one thing something has over the other is ridiculous, these are competing products that fortunately aren't pretending to be one another and instead offer refreshingly different user experiences. That's very unusual for the industry, let alone any industry (I'm looking at you, automobiles) where everyone just copies one another to deliver basically the same product.Narg - Tuesday, June 30, 2020 - link
It's relevant SamusLord of the Bored - Tuesday, June 23, 2020 - link
I mean, we'll have to stop soon now. Just like we eventually stopped raking them over the coals for not implementing meaningful notification management at some point after they copied the Android notification shade.And we've NEVER mocked them for copying the display notch off of LG's V20. We can be charitable.
But soon is not now. We can point and laugh for a while yet that it took them fourteen years to get past "that Windows machine in your high school with so many files saved to the desktop that they completely covered the screen and fell off the edge into oblivion."
PeachNCream - Tuesday, June 23, 2020 - link
Bubba? Wow, that's not something you see people using as a name due to the various implications and stereotypes associated with it in modern times. Interesting.mattbe - Monday, June 22, 2020 - link
Android didn't even exist 14 years ago. Also, how old do you have to be to bicker and whine about iOS?rrinker - Monday, June 22, 2020 - link
WebOS did, and it had widgets. Apple's borrowed a lot from it - the swipe an app up to close it was one of the first things they borrowed.I'm quite used too the way it works now though, I already have my apps in groups by type, so it will be interesting to see how this ends up working.
psychobriggsy - Tuesday, June 23, 2020 - link
The weird thing is that Apple had desktop widgets with its Dashboard thing in Mac OS X 15 years ago, and never transitioned them, even as an idea, to the mobile platforms until recently.But they did abandon Dashboard, thankfully.
senttoschool - Friday, June 26, 2020 - link
That's because no one uses desktop widgets. I'm a MacOS user and i rarely see my desktop.boozed - Monday, June 22, 2020 - link
Crazy how quickly things go from "unnecessary" to "the best thing ever"Narg - Tuesday, June 30, 2020 - link
LoL!Dug - Tuesday, June 23, 2020 - link
And how are your updates going for your old android device?Oh that's right, they aren't.
Narg - Tuesday, June 30, 2020 - link
Not from the OEM, but there are ways to get newer Android on older devices. That's one of the many better things about Android.Nonegiven - Friday, July 3, 2020 - link
Just as there were ways to use iOS without "widgets." Perhaps now you understand.tstone96 - Thursday, August 27, 2020 - link
Do you think they will eventually copy the android style? I know they are late in the game to update things, but when a new update does come out it seems to be very similar to the Android style in my opinion.