Apple has a long way to go to match some basic features on Android 2.1: multitasking, real time widgets, social networking sync with phone book, interactive wallpapers, built in street navigation, ability to upload to Youtube directly, being able to view Picassa pics directly on your Gallery, being able to share pictures to picture social networking sites directly from the Gallery, dynamic weather updates based on your GPS location, and one of the best push and event notification systems in the business.
Even have not gone what the future will hold, or what other UIs can add to Android, such as Sense UI's ability to prioritize contacts based on your actual location, as well as altering time zones based on your GPS location.
Android, as well as WebOS, actually starts making iPhone OS rather old, archaic even.
New generation mobile OS has to be:
1. Contacts or People oriented. Traditional OS is file or apps management oriented. New generation OS has to be centered on human - contacts - social networking management. An example would be the phone book able to sync with Facebook.
2. Real Time with notifications - Ambient streaming as they are calling it, the OS must be able to present an organized stream of real time information to the user from all sources whether its email, Twitter, SMS, Facebook, other social networking sites. Two ways this is done, first via unified event and messaging notification timeline, and second, through real time widgets (requires multitasking).
3. Dynamic location basing - Use location based features to dynamically prioritize contacts, phone calling, weather, mobile advertising, maps, search and web. This part requires real time widgets which in turn requires a multitasking OS.
4. Seamless Cloud Computing integration. Android constantly syncs to the Cloud for example. You lose an Android phone during your work travel, you can easily acquire a new one, and just by simply logging on to your Google account, the new phone would restores all your contact and calendar information. Another example is the way Android will show your Picassa pics from the phone Gallery itself.
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