re: Report: iPhone 6 will come with NFC, wireless charging, and even better 4G

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some topics are going to do that. and when either apple or android thread are started like this one with "ALL NEW FEATURES" with something that is used on the other platform, you are going to get this.

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It all depends on the tone and attitude of the responses.

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its funny when i made the switch every one apple was bashing me for years. i enjoy sitting back and watching it getting returned to them.

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sadly I was one of them. I bashed you and called you crazy many times.. But, it's because of you that I gave Android a chance.. I knew that I could return the phone after 30 days if I didn't like it.. After a day I said woahhhhh.. Ramrod was right! Forgive me brother!

i mostly talked so much shite cause i was bored at work and i really like to argue. fun times

Dp

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I'd like to know, specifically, what Android allows you to do that iOS doesn't?

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Change your launcher and the associated functionality. Some launchers are light and fast and sparse on features, some have all the bells and whistles and neat effects. Some are very similar to the stock Google Now Launcher, except with a few extra features or whatnot. Actually, just the simple fact that Android launchers separate your home screens from your app drawer is a huge advantage. On iOS, you basically have to hide little-used apps inside folders, right? It fits my brain better to have all my apps in the app drawer, and instead move my commonly-used apps onto a home screen. (Actually, my home screens have zero app icons, they are all widgets. I have a home row with folders where my often-used app icons live.)

"Intents": This is the name Android gives to what is basically its sharing functionality. I think Apple hard-coded Facebook, Twitter, email, etc. sharing into iOS. Like, if you're browsing your photos, you have a button to share a photo to Facebook, right? On Android, any app can hook into this Intents framework. So, if I am looking through pictures, I press the share button and any app that can handle pictures is in the list to share it to. Facebook, email, photo editors, photo sharing apps like imgur, etc. Another example, I can highlight a paragraph on a web page and share it to Evernote, or a text message, or a translation app, etc. It's just a really slick, smooth, and intuitive way to handle many common tasks. Maybe iOS can do this now, but it couldn't last I checked, and I think it would be big news if it could.

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On iOS, you basically have to hide little-used apps inside folders, right? It fits my brain better to have all my apps in the app drawer, and instead move my commonly-used apps onto a home screen.

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Since Apple doesn't allow App Launchers, that is certainly an issue where Android wins hands down, but you can move apps where ever you want now. In the past I remember having to hide "official" apps in a folder on the home page, but they fixed that in iOS 6 or 7. You can bury apps you don't want in a folder on the last app page if you like

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"Intents"...Maybe iOS can do this now, but it couldn't last I checked, and I think it would be big news if it could.

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That was one of the features mentioned for the upcoming iOS8 at WWDC last week.

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Apple's annual developer conference is well underway, and it just revealed what could be a seismic shift in the iOS world: Third-party apps will soon be able talk to each other. Historically, applications on iOS have lived in their own silos, without being able to share data and features, but that's set to change in iOS 8. Apple has given developers "Extensibility" tools -- a suite of APIs, if you want to get technical -- that they can wield to let their apps share everything from documents to translation services. A demo onstage showed a Bing extension for Safari doing inline translation of a Japanese website, and using Pinterest to share a photo from a website in just a few taps.

Of course, info sharing is bound to be a boon for third-party Twitter apps and other social networking services. This kind of interaction between apps has existed on other platforms like Android and, of course, the best examples are support for third-party keyboards and widgets in notifications. Both features will be in the new iOS, but the implementation goes deeper. Apps can also select a default storage location that's accessible by other apps -- it's not exactly a traditional file browser, but it sounds close. As a security measure, iOS 8 will act as a middleman when it comes to sending data between apps, rather than letting applications chat directly with each other.

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That was one of the features mentioned for the upcoming iOS8 at WWDC last week.

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Apple's annual developer conference is well underway, and it just revealed what could be a seismic shift in the iOS world: Third-party apps will soon be able talk to each other.

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Ahh, it's appropriate to refer to it as a "seismic shift", because it really does change the way you use your phone. I'm interested to see how they implement it and how well it works.

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I answered very specific questions posed by iPhone users who are considering switching.

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Sorry that wasn't towards you. Just a general statement about the first 5 posts and how they basically derailed the thread.

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Ok, none of this means anything to me.

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I'm in the same boat. I'm 36 and an engineer and I still don't need this type of functionality on my phone.

I use my phone for text messages, calls, internet browsing, and GPS in that order.

None of what corkstand said moves me in any way. I guess the problem is that I'm getting older and IDGAF if I have to push the screen 2 more times to share a photo to a social networking site.

No offense to Droid users. I just don't care if my phone can help me hide apps that I don't use as much as others (even though it does).

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I'm 36 and an engineer and I still don't need this type of functionality on my phone.

I use my phone for text messages, calls, internet browsing, and GPS in that order.

None of what corkstand said moves me in any way. I guess the problem is that I'm getting older and IDGAF if I have to push the screen 2 more times to share a photo to a social networking site.

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Nobody needs any particular functionality until it's available and they use it. I guarantee it will be handy for your usage.

Example: you receive an email with a dimension or whatever that you'd like to save to a note or text to someone else. Would you prefer to highlight the text->copy->go to app launcher->open other app->paste, or highlight the text->share->choose app?

You can't tell me you don't already use the sharing features that iOS has built in. Just extend that function to/from all apps and I'm sure you'll make use of it.