The problem here is that even third-party web browsers like Google Chrome have to use this UIWebView to render content on iOS. It's nice, it's fast, and it's all you really need in a browser-unless, of course, you want something else. #10 - There's Only One Rendering Engine (Safari)Īpple uses something called UIWebView to render webpages in Safari.
Tap, tap, tap away, but when you want to go home or perform any of these other gestures? CLICK. Think about it-you want to open an app, you tap the icon. Most Android phones, on the other hand, have on-screen buttons that are tapped, just like the rest of the interface. One final issue I'd like to address here is more of a hardware thing-the physical button on iPhones actually has to be clicked. Instead, I'll take a closer look at some of the minor frustrations one encounters while using iOS, and all of the small things that Android does better than iOS.Īpparently, I'm pretty passionate about my buttons, because I can't bring myself to stop there. Google Now, the lack of custom launchers, and the locked down interface on iOS, since those issues have been covered ad nauseam. I'll do my best to stay away from the obvious things like Siri vs.
This has finally afforded me the chance to really compare the two operating systems, as opposed to my previous method of researching and copping five-minute sessions with in-store demo units. It's an iPhone 6, so it's not the latest and greatest, but it does run the most recent version of iOS. This isn't due to some blind trust in Google or some unfounded hate for Apple, either, because I've always made sure to get my hands on each iPhone iteration along the way to see what it had to offer.īut just this last April, I finally got my very first iPhone.
Over the course of the past seven years, I've owned ten different smartphones-all of them powered by Android.
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