[Android General] monkeyluis:
Just watched video 1 again, & here are my notes.

Customization. Not able to use default apps, totally agree. I want this on ios & I love it on my galaxy tab.

Copy & paste links, says it takes forever, but he just did it on the video in a few seconds. Really??

Copy an address & go to maps. He says he has to copy & go to another app. He's not even using safari. Safari does this & takes you right to maps. At least say it doesn't work in that specific browser. Once in maps you can then do everything he mentioned in android.

I agree that widgets are great. I love it on my galaxy tab 2.

He says the screen is cluttered with apps. Well yeah, the android apps page is also cluttered. Home screens of course are not & you can make them nice & clean.

Youtube. More steps. Yeah. But it can still be done. YouTube app sucks on ios, plain & simple, worst experience ever. Yeah, YouTube is so clumsy & ugly. Blame google.

Searching. Can be done system wide for anything. Even web. Sure it doesn't have a search right on the home screen, but press the home button & swipe right. it's not that difficult. In ics, If I was in an app & needed to search I would still have to go home & then search.

Back button. I do like the unified back button in ICS.

True multitasking? Downloading stops on YouTube. Ok.

Apps are paused to save on battery life & memory. If you don't understand why it's done...then these videos shouldn't be made. Granted, yes I would like apps to continue downloading in the background. But you need to understand the reason why iOS doesn't allow it.

Closing apps is not that big of a deal. C'mon. It is simpler on ICS, but not difficult in ios.

Unified the tablet & smartphone together. I don't have a lot of tablet apps on my galaxy tab 2, :( iPad still has that over ICS. It's a fact, admit it. For instance, I have zite on my galaxy tab 2, but it's the phone version. I'd like to see this get Bette & easier to know what are tablet apps in google play. Like in ios it has the little plus sign, or you can see a truly iPad specific apps section only. Why not a table specific section in google play. There is only a staff picks for tablets. It's not an easy experience.

Aspect ratio. If you watch videos, you can still get widescreen, you just have the black bars. & you can still watch hd videos. He didn't mention the difference between aspect ratio & hd resolution. Having a higher aspect ratio does not denote hd quality video.

Custom ring tones. Just go to iTunes & buy ringtones, just as you would with dropping an mp3 file. But yes, if you already have an mp3 file, it is a pain in the butt.

Syncing bookmarks, use xmarks or chrome sync. Chrome sync also works for tabs & history. Supposedly chrome is coming to ios.

Look I agree that ICS is just as easy to use. But when you compare two products then you need to be honest in stating all of the things one can do. If there was absolutely positively no way to do a certain thing, then I would totally agree. But when you have 3rd party solutions that do work, then you have to state that the functionality is there.

That's about it for now. I'm just looking for some honesty. They biggest thing was saying you can't do anything with an address, but he was using a different browser. Well mention that, it's the browsers fault, not that of the OS.

I'll also state that I am bored with ios. Since using ICS I have really enjoyed it. I'm looking to get the galaxy s3 as soon as it comes out (that's why I joined the forum & for my galaxy tab 2). That doesn't mean I don't know how iOS works, I am a user of both & know it's limitations as well as its functionalities. I will at least be honest when something just downright sucks. I don't like the back & forth that fans on either side play, both are great oses, both have sucky features. Oh well.