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Re: Is there really only one thing that iOS can do that Android can't do?

From	Marion <marion@facts.com>
Newsgroups	misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject	Re: Is there really only one thing that iOS can do that Android can't do?
Date	2025-08-13 21:47 +0000
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On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 10:14:35 -0400, Tom Elam wrote :


>> Note: Understanding why iOS is designed to be brain dead is an important
>> step in understanding what Apple's fundamental marketing strategies are.
> 
> Yes there is. I can go to my local Apple store 5 miles away and have 
> them transfer my account, apps, and settings to a new iOS device.

Thank you for bringing up that the Apple store is a unique "product", 
but while I can go to the Apple store for my Apple products, I can also go
to the T-Mobile store for my Samsung Galaxy A32-5G which T-Mobile gave me.

In fact, I did that, and I documented it multiple times on the Android
newsgroup as I broke the port on one and I bricked another, both of which
the T-Mobile store replaced for free (T-Mobile refunded the $20 store
charge in my bill). 

All this was noted in the Android newsgroup when it happened.
 
> I can take my iOS iPad with a broken screen to that same store and get 
> it replaced at no additional cost under terms of AppleCare+. That 
> includes transferring account, apps and settings.

Thanks for suggesting that only Apple products have a warranty, 
but the fact is Samsung and T-Mobile products have a warranty also.

As I said above, T-Mobile replaced the *entire phone* when I busted the
charging port by sleeping on the cable & when I bricked the phone by
messing around with attempting to root it. All this is well documented.

I received two replacement phones, from the T-Mobile store - for free.
No warranty costs whatsoever.

> I can run ForeFlight on iOS, but not on Android.

Thanks for trying to find a functionality on the iPhone or iPad that isn't
on Android, but unfortunately for you, flight-planning software isn't it.

ForeFlight on iOS has touch planning, form-based planning, routing and
procedural advice, graphical pre-flight briefings and flight-plan filing,
with weather intelligence, aeronautical charts, approach plates, taxi
charts, hazard advice, digital logbook, gps positioning, cloud sync,  ads-b
integration, flight binders, etc., so it's clearly a useful too for pilots. 

But Android has similar flight planning, weather, charts and navigation
tools such as Garmin Pilot, FltPlan Go, Avare, Air Navigation Pro &
MyRadar, where most professionally and IFR pilots apparently use Garmin
Pilot while VFR and budget-conscious pilots tend to use Avare & FltPlan.

> In fact, having moved from Android to iOS I have found nothing that I 
> had on Android phones and tablets is missing on iOS. 

Heh heh heh.... up until you said that, you had credibility.

Do you want me to list the functionalities I use every day on Android that
are impossible to do on iOS? 

Seriously? 
Do you really want me to do that?

> That includes numerous Google apps, like Google Maps. 
> However, Android will not run 
> Apple Maps and most other Apple apps. In other words, for my uses iOS 
> has more choices than Android. Thank you Google for making iOS more 
> attractive with iOS app versions.

I'm unsure why you brought up navigation software since both Android & iOS
have navigation software - where Android has far more than does iOS overall
(e.g., OSMAnd! is on Android but not on iOS but that's not the point).

Both platforms have plenty of navigation software, so that's not going to
be a functionality that is on the iPhone or iPad that isn't on Android.

> If Apple is brain dead why are all those great Google apps available on iOS?

There's a reason I asked this rather adult thought question.
You'll never see Apple tell you the answer to this question.

After over a hundred posts, nobody yet has come up with a single
functionality that is on the iPhone or iPad that is not on Android.

I'm not afraid of the answer to this thought question.
In fact, I hope someone (anyone!) comes up with an answer.

 Q: *Is there really only 1 thing iPhones can do that Androids can't do?*
 A: ?

Note that nobody coming up with an answer, *is* an answer after all.
That's why I asked the thought-provoking question.

I know the answer.
Only after others inculcate that answer, can they begin to learn why.

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