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I thought Apple was the one that always copied Android…
They copy each other all the time. The idea that apple always copies android is just an Android fan boy idea.
I don’t like any of them. But from what I see, Android is the first one to make that feature in a way that it’s compatible with non-Android devices. That’s what the U in USB was meant for. The Apple version probably only works with other Apple devices, I guess.
Not only that, a ton of features people think were originally Android back in the beginning where done by the original iPhone jail breakers or PalmOS. It works out great.
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I’m fairly certain DroidCam is also on iOS.
Not trying to refute anyone, though I’d just add that.
lol. The worst kind of “um, actually”.
The kind that’s actually correct?
The kind that is irrelevant because it wasn’t a feature of Android. That’s why it’s being added now.
It’s not Android’s fault for not being extensible enough.
Note: iPhone user
I don’t understand how it’s not Android’s fault that it didn’t have this feature. Whose fault was it then?
If it’s something you can do easily by downloading an app, it’s a feature of Android or IOS. Built in OS features are just a convenience unless they add something because they’re built in.
No it’s not. That’s incredibly dishonest. You think it’s coincidental that they’re just adding it now after it was added to iOS in the last update?
No. Not at all. But that is not what I’m saying, at all.
You said that “if you can download something, it’s a feature of the OS”. That is not true. If it was a feature of the OS, you wouldn’t need to download it, plain and simple.
Crazy that iOS doesn’t have the ability to play YouTube videos!
Because according to you, if you have to download an app to gain functionality, it doesn’t exist.
Maybe one day iPhones can watch YouTube.
iOS dropped that functionality in 2012.
What a straw man! First off, YouTube.com exists so your point is not only stupid but wrong. And secondly, I never said that. This is a first-party feature being added to the OS a year after Apple added it to iOS. That’s why I’m comparing.
You’re saying I am stupid and wrong, when you’re literally wrong. Downloading an app on ANDROID that gives you a feature, is quite literally the definition of a FEATURE of ANDROID.
You must be confusing the word native with feature, which just makes you look “stupid and wrong”, to quote you.
I am not wrong. A feature of an OS is something that comes with the OS. “Being able to download an app” is a feature of the OS. “Being able to use a camera as a webcam” is a feature of an app that you downloaded. You’re wrong but you’re just arguing semantics dishonestly because otherwise you have to admit it’s not a feature. If it was a feature of the OS, you wouldn’t need to download something to get that feature.
So like how the iPad has no calculator feature?
Sure! That’s a fair point.
To be fair, we had this available for years. Now it’s just fully native.
no, but Apple always announces things they copied as a brand new thing never done before.
Name one thing they have copied and said it had never been done before.
They always say “new to iPhone” or “for the first time in an iPhone”.
We’re responding to the most disingenuous audience on here. They aren’t going to reply with anything honest.