10 Things Android wishes it did better than iPhone OS
I read on Gizmodo today 10 Things Android Does Better Than iPhone OS and it made me very unhappy. As an owner of both systems I think I have some insight into how things really are.
Maybe in a perfect world all those things would actually make the phone better, but here in the real world, they just make the phone slower. Widgets, multitasking, social networking and notifications really just get in the way of doing useful things. Proof of this is the fact that I have to have an app just to kill all the apps that stay running after I close them. And the mysterious apps that start whenever they feel like it. Also the fact that I have to restart my phone every day to keep it running at top performance (like actually being able to make and receive phone calls). I would leave my iPhone on for MONTHS without any loss of performance.
To say that the App Store is inferior to the Android Marketplace is just ridiculous. The truth is on either market the ratio of total crap to anything useful is about 1000:1. Therefore, since the App Store has roughly 3 times as many apps, you’re bound to get better options.
Both systems look stunning in pictures and on feature lists. But the iPhone clearly stands alone in the real world. Yeah you can’t have a calendar widget on the iPhone. But on the iPhone when you open apps, you don’t have to sit there waiting for them. They open quickly and let you get on with your life.