>the biggest feature in Android 4.2 that you're so excited about is the AirPlay clone.
what are you talking about? I'm very well aware of AirPlay and I'm not aware of a feature (introduced) in 4.2 that is even similar... I certainly have not mentioned any such feature today.
>when I can now just order the phone to do tasks like Montgomery Scott in Star Trek IV: The One with Whales?
Google Now has already leapfrogged it. I just got a card telling me there's traffic to meet up with my friend and a card reminding me my parts are arriving tomorrow in the mail.
I think you're dead wrong to characterize Android as being at "parity" with the iPhone, in fact that's absolutely down right absurd. Android can feature for feature match iOS and then go on for half a dozen more. Please let me know how that is inaccurate if you think it is.
It's described almost everywhere as AirPlay-esque functionality.
"Google Now has already leapfrogged it"
You: iOS hasn't changed in forever.
Me: example of radical changes in iOS recently.
You: Google did one of those too!
Instead of moving the goalposts just admit I was right and we can move on. I certainly don't contest the idea that Google has copied anything.
"Android can feature for feature match iOS and then go on for half a dozen more. Please let me know how that is inaccurate if you think it is."
Lists of features =/= parity in device or OS quality. If lists of features are so important why are the headline for every major Android update the claims that it's now lag free and it doesn't look like shit anymore? Seriously go back and look at what the main selling point of Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, ICS and Jellybean have been. The correct answers are performance, both, ui, both and performance. The headline feature isn't ever a feature, it's always "not sucking anymore."
And there's plenty of features that Android doesn't offer -- like regular OS updates to the vast majority of their users or LTE with both battery life and insane thinness. Or a superior media ecosystem around the world. Android devices are only now surpassing the graphics capabilities of chips Apple started shipping in March 2011.
what are you talking about? I'm very well aware of AirPlay and I'm not aware of a feature (introduced) in 4.2 that is even similar... I certainly have not mentioned any such feature today.
>when I can now just order the phone to do tasks like Montgomery Scott in Star Trek IV: The One with Whales?
Google Now has already leapfrogged it. I just got a card telling me there's traffic to meet up with my friend and a card reminding me my parts are arriving tomorrow in the mail.
I think you're dead wrong to characterize Android as being at "parity" with the iPhone, in fact that's absolutely down right absurd. Android can feature for feature match iOS and then go on for half a dozen more. Please let me know how that is inaccurate if you think it is.