A long time ago, in a smartphone scene pretty different to this one, you could tell Android and iOS apart from a distance. Nowadays, it's not quite as straightforward, given the number of features and ideas these two powerhouse mobile OSes have borrowed from each other over the years. There are still some crucial differences between them though.
We won't go too much into the history of all the times these platforms have pinched innovations off one another, but you might remember some of them:
iOS recently added a back button of sorts, after years of holding out, though it still doesn't work as well as the Android implementation.
A long time ago, in a smartphone scene pretty different to this one, you could tell Android and iOS apart from a distance. Nowadays, it's not quite as straightforward, given the number of features and ideas these two powerhouse mobile OSes have borrowed from each other over the years. There are still some crucial differences between them though.
We won't go too much into the history of all the times these platforms have pinched innovations off one another, but you might remember some of them:
iOS recently added a back button of sorts, after years of holding out, though it still doesn't work as well as the Android implementation.