Not really. iOS7 allows more situations for the OS to wake up an app for a short amount of time, but there's no real multitasking as in android where you just write your service and stay running.
Aside of that, I agree with the article about strengths and weaknesses of the two platforms. I've used both Android and iOS over time, but in the end, many small things just let me prefer iOS, even though it's probably completely subjective at this point.
The biggest lock-in to iOS is iMessage though and I hate Apple for that as it makes it next to impossible for me to ever not use an iOS device as my phone any more: When you move your SIM card from an iOS device to a non-iOS device, there's a period of time during which Apple accepts iMessages for your number, especially when you have other devices configured with iMessage. At this point, people sending you an iMessage (it's not as if they get to chose) will think that the message is delivered (it might even say "delivered"), when in fact nothing the like has happened.
Worse: Even once this settles and apple's server stop accepting iMessages to a number, now the sender will see green chat bubbles instead of blue ones. This has caused me so much grief with non-technical iOS users, believing that something went wrong with delivering the message, causing them to call me after nearly every message they sent ("the bubble didn't look the same. did you get my message?")
This is an ugly mess and I don't see any motivation for Apple to fix it as it only punishes those who don't use iOS, never those using iOS.
The other big thing is visual voice mail which I really like and so far is not supported by Android (aside of some crappy carrier specific apps) even though in most cases it's just audio-files-over-imap that's powering the secret sauce under iOS.
"When you move your SIM card from an iOS device to a non-iOS device, there's a period of time during which Apple accepts iMessages for your number, especially when you have other devices configured with iMessage."
If you turn off iMessage before removing the sim card this won't happen.
I do this all the time when switching between my HTC One X and iPhone 4.
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> (iOS7 will have multitasking for all apps).
Not really. iOS7 allows more situations for the OS to wake up an app for a short amount of time, but there's no real multitasking as in android where you just write your service and stay running.
Aside of that, I agree with the article about strengths and weaknesses of the two platforms. I've used both Android and iOS over time, but in the end, many small things just let me prefer iOS, even though it's probably completely subjective at this point.
The biggest lock-in to iOS is iMessage though and I hate Apple for that as it makes it next to impossible for me to ever not use an iOS device as my phone any more: When you move your SIM card from an iOS device to a non-iOS device, there's a period of time during which Apple accepts iMessages for your number, especially when you have other devices configured with iMessage. At this point, people sending you an iMessage (it's not as if they get to chose) will think that the message is delivered (it might even say "delivered"), when in fact nothing the like has happened.
Worse: Even once this settles and apple's server stop accepting iMessages to a number, now the sender will see green chat bubbles instead of blue ones. This has caused me so much grief with non-technical iOS users, believing that something went wrong with delivering the message, causing them to call me after nearly every message they sent ("the bubble didn't look the same. did you get my message?")
This is an ugly mess and I don't see any motivation for Apple to fix it as it only punishes those who don't use iOS, never those using iOS.
The other big thing is visual voice mail which I really like and so far is not supported by Android (aside of some crappy carrier specific apps) even though in most cases it's just audio-files-over-imap that's powering the secret sauce under iOS.
If you turn off iMessage before removing the sim card this won't happen.
I do this all the time when switching between my HTC One X and iPhone 4.
Google Talk isn't carrier specific.
Google Talk isn't available where I live.