Yay for Ipeople.

[droidntn]

Welcome to the real world that we Androidians have enjoyed for years.
Next up....?
Ipads get a stylus.

 

[Aquila]

Grats iGuys! and iGals!

 

[gone down south]

God, these kind of threads are tiresome. IOS and Android ecosystems cross-pollinate features all the time, its just how development takes place. if anything you could criticize iOS for having no unique features announced this year, but they're in a development / bugfix phase right now and it's not surprising that they're not really got anything innovative to announce.

 

[Aquila]

Both systems should evolve with the features users want.

M Dev Nexus 6 Assassin Edition. Android Central Moderator.

 

[droidntn]

Both systems should evolve with the features users want.

M Dev Nexus 6 Assassin Edition. Android Central Moderator.

Well said.

 

[hallux]

To be fair, "split-screen multitasking" has been a part of only a SUBSET of Android devices for a while.

 

[LeoRex]

As the mobile platform matures the two platforms will, of course, end up with a bunch of overlapping features... it's what users want. The main difference, though, is what I guess you could call the genetic diversity of the Android platform. iOS will continue to have fewer features to differentiate itself from Andoid, but the same can't be said about Android with respect to iOS... it has the advantage of not only Google developing features, but OEMs as well as the home-brew devs like we see on XDA all adding their own ideas. That toxic hellstew isn't Android's weakness, it's its greatest strength.

So yes, we can poke fun at Apple for finally introducing features that have been in Android for years, but its not like Android hasn't borrowed its own fair share from iOS... it only makes sense to do so.