We may be pampered by the abundance in Android handset choices, but there are quite a number of things and innovation in iOS that keep me from jumping over to the green robot.
First off, "Notification"...
Many think of the Apple Notification feature as a work-around for multi-tasking prior to iOS version 4 (it was called iPhone OS then and multi-tasking was not available).
Personally, I think the Apple Notification is a great feature on its own. It inspired the creation of online games, like "We Farm, Farmville" and apps like "Whatsapp, Textie" whereby the games/apps will still receive notification and alert the user even though they are totally closed or offline.
All these apps tap on the single service that the Apple provides to poll for the notifications. So, no matter how many apps/games you have run to receive notifications, the memory usage are utilised to a low single service's usage.
I've previously tried opening several "notification-based" apps, like IM app on my Android HTC Desire and checked the services running. It was one service per app runnning at the same time. My HTC Desire became slow and sluggish very soon after that.
And then in iOS 4, Apple introduced "Local Notification" which is similar to the normal remote Notification, except it runs off the local handset. This offers even better performance in terms of battery consumption and response time. Typical apps that uses this are those Alarm apps.
So, the Apple Notification is one of the several features that keep iOS and Android OS apart... and me and the green robot away for now.
... to be continued
Company like HTC behave like Nokia also. Keep releasing flaw products. It seems like Samsung is doing well and that's why they got Nexus S!
ReplyDeleteI still miss gTalk in android phone. It is an write-and-you-know-the-other-end-will-get-the-message kind of IM.
The only similar thing in iOS is, email. :)
Agree on the GTalk for Android. It's definitely much stable and respond faster than those general all-in-1 IMs for iPhone such as IM+.
ReplyDeleteI won't put email as a good IM tool. It's not meant to be an IM anyway. It won't replace my normal GTalk and even SMS.