One of the most important milestones of the week that we are closed is the announcement of iOS 10 at the Apple Developer Conference. This version of the system will bring important changes and will close an episode in the recent history of the apple, as it is already incompatible with the iPad 2 and the first iPad mini, probably the two best-selling tablets of the firm in these years. We continue to analyze different aspects of the transition and, in particular, its relationship with Android.
We return to yesterday's chapter in which we described some of the similarities most important of how many iOS 10 is establishing with Android. Basically, we analyze the opening of Crab to third-party apps and how that exceeds the excessive control that Apple had kept on its own resources. Today we have to go a little more superficially and review aesthetic or utilitarian issues inspired by the Google operating system.
iOS 10 almost seems like one more customization of Android (part 1)
Active Display / Always On, a booming feature
Apple has announced that one of the novelties of iOS 10 It is the one that the terminal will recognize when you take it in your hand and will turn on its screen to be used. This function was inaugurated by the first Moto X, when Motorola was under the Google umbrella. Currently, manufacturers such as LG (through an additional screen), Samsung (thanks to the energy efficiency of AMOLEDs) or, more recently, OnePlushave carried out similar developments.
iOS 10 and Apple's love-hate relationship with widgets
While Android assumed from the beginning that the possibility of use widgets on the desktop it was a point in favor of his system, and he found in these elements a powerful tool to improve the user experience, Apple has had more problems in recognizing its usefulness. In recent iterations of the system, the apple has gone gradually integrating the widgets, although in a somewhat secondary way. In iOS 10, they will be on the unlock screen, as happened with Android 4.2.
Google Photos inspires functions to the native iOS 10 app
Of all the Google applications, the one that has perhaps best evolved from one year to this part is Photos. In the end, the Mountain Viewers are aware of the enormous amount that catches that are done with mobiles and has tried to enhance its administration from Android. iOS 10 will include advanced search by terms between the photos, although for now it does not integrate the most powerful option of its rivals: the space of unlimited storage.
Conclusion
In summary, these are the novel aspects of iOS 10 that most clearly begin to resemble Android, however, they only continue with a trend clearly noticeable over the last few years. As we say, perhaps the opening and granting of options (previously limited) to developers is a quality that confirms the evidence that Apple can't cover it all. A couple of years ago we already saw the block allowing third-party keyboards, which at the time was a major break with the usual guidelines. The option of combining the applications of the developers with Siri, is going to suppose a fundamental leap for the system, if the tricks that are on the table are played well.
In terms of aesthetics or more superficial functions (and despite the fact that Apple still maintains a strict red line for certain issues), iOS 7 It was a before and after. Issues such as the preview of multitasking apps, widgets, the inclusion of NFC, the assumption that it was important to make larger screens, the stylus tend to homogenize the two mobile platforms, which is not necessarily bad but it does suppose, from our point of view, the victory of one model over the other.
I am very funny how you reach some previous conclusions (you just have to see the headline) and once done, the arguments that support it are searched, how? biasing and being partisan, choosing those that only go one way and not making a comparison in the 2 directions. In fact, it forgets aspects when it does not matter, such as that Siri was the first virtual assistant, in this case Google was not inspired by a concept launched by Apple and the idea is directly discarded.
Without going into many details, I am surprised by some statements, such as saying that Google (Android) looks after the developers for having opened Google Now to third parties hahaha it is curious that someone who works on a website called TABLETzona say that Android has been designed with developers in mind, of course, to be able to affirm it, a single argument needs to be weighed in a very interested way, ignoring, for example, that the App Store with a 15% global share generates twice as much income as Google. Play with an 80% quota, or that the vast majority of projects start on iOS because Apple has created a platform where the content and USER EXPERIENCE in these has been (and continues to be) light years away from the Google model.
and another aspect in which I do not agree, underestimate the interaction with the touch screen in favor of the voice assistant as an unquestionable substitute, nothing is further from reality, the 3D Touch says exactly the opposite and is a real bet and palpable of the importance of the interaction with the interface and its commitment to strengthen this aspect. We will see when Google native support to this technology on Android, which will and we will see if virtual assistants are a substitute or a complement for certain situations, I lean towards the second option.