[Steko]

One of my most used third party apps has become Firefox Home, flawed and feature poor as it is. Browser sync is a can't live without it once you've tasted it feature and seems like a no brainer to add now that everyone is on icloud. Most people think of navigation as Android's biggest advantage over iOS but Chrome sync in ICS seems bigger to me.

Inverting desktop to phone sync, remote desktop seems like an even bigger killer feature that no one's really done right yet.

Facetime w/o wi-fi seems like a no brainer.

Swiping between emails and tabs would be nice.

Swiping emails in list to mark as read/unread ala Byline would be great.

ID browser as ... desktop safari ala Atomic and a few others would be nice.

Some sort of gesture or hack to make all hover based nested menus not close instantly.

An ad blocker (again avail in Atomic or Sleipnir) would be godly but Apple seems very unlikely to implement a large scale one. Honestly the only adds I really want to block are the pop ups "Did you know the website for the article you want to be reading right now made an app! Click 99% of the pixels in this window to further delay consumption of the content you came here for."

[fpgeek]

> but Chrome sync in ICS seems bigger to me.

Not to mention full-fledged Firefox and Firefox Sync on most devices 2.1+

The problem for Apple is that adding browser sync to iCloud isn't enough. Most people aren't browsing with Safari on the desktop. That means unless Apple

(a) loosens up on third-party browsers (unlikely based on past behavior) and/or

(b) opens up sync APIs for third-party desktop browsers, including third-party browsers on Windows (possible, but at least somewhat uncharacteristic and potentially tricky technically),

Android is likely to maintain its edge in browser sync.

Of course the same logic suggests that browser sync to desktop IE is potentially an under-appreciated advantage for Microsoft and Windows Phone. That's blunted a bit because, based on Microsoft's previous announcements, new versions of IE (including, presumably, whatever version adds browser sync) aren't going to make it to XP, but that's still a significant universe of potential sync targets.