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I'm not sure that I fully agree with your list. In fact, what I see is that Apple is great at marketing (making a big deal of minor changes) and making them seem like "game changers".
While Apple was first with Siri being integrated, the fact is that it wasn't an Apple development. Instead, Apple purchased the rights to Siri, which was a separate app. They were the first to integrate the technology into the OS but it was already available prior to Apple including it.
The fingerprint scanner isn't really a fair comparison, at least when talking pure Android vs. iOS. This is one of the places Apple has an advantage, since they control both hardware and software. And, again, Apple purchased the fingerprint technology rather than developing it themselves. Since Google doesn't actually make the phones, it doesn't help them to make that type of acquisition. What Android does well, however, is having the adaptability for manufacturers to add fingerprint sensors (such as what Samsung has done); which has lead to the improvements Apple is copying now.
32 to 64 bit chip architecture is overrated. It has changed nothing on the iPhone, at least to this point. It isn't really any faster or provide any real advantage at the current time. The biggest advantage is that allows the processor to make use of over 3GB of RAM, which isn't really needed yet (especially on iPhones that still only have 1GB of RAM). It is one of those things that sounds impressive and will be needed eventually. Instead, Apple's 64-bit processor still, a year later, doesn't seem to provide any advantage on the devices that have it.
Actually, from my recollection, Android had cloud integration first. Remember all the complaints from iPhone users about having to use iTunes to set up and load apps on their phones, even at a time when Android was doing that through the cloud? The problem is what you end up calling "complete" integration. What I see is that both Apple and Android keep providing more and more cloud abilities in their OSes. Though, again, Apple's advantage (as a hardware manufacturer) is that they can make their phones integrate with their desktop OS. Google, without a mainstream desktop/laptop OS, is not able to provide that level of integration -- then again, with less than 10% of most desktop/laptop computer users owning Apple, the majority of iOS users can't use that integration, either.
Last, Retina Display is bogus. I'll admit, at the time is was released, Retina was better than what you saw on Android but it was more of an incremental change than any revolutionary change (300 ppi compared to 250 ppi). This was purely Apple marketing; especially as the next generation of Android phones had 720p resolution (which was better than Retina) and within a year or two went to 1080p resolution. Now, a couple of years later, Apple has finally created their first 1080p device. While Apple set a "standard" with Retina, it was an arbitrary and pure marketing -- and as the market and usage has shown, Retina wasn't some great advance or the be all end all of displays. Instead, 400 ppi appears to be what is much closer to what Apple meant by a "retina" display; and they are still behind on that.
In essence, as was stated, almost every "new" feature that was announced by the iPhone 6 was something already being done by Android phones. In some cases Apple has integrated them better but they are evolutionary, not revolutionary, changes to what Android has already been able to do for two years or more.
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