| > Early Android prototypes, shown by Google just before the iPhone was announced had half-size screens and physical keyboards, just like the rest of the smartphones of the day. The HTC G1 was also one of the early prototypes shown off. Android definitely came later, but they were already working on a large, capacitive touch phone before the iPhone came out. > Since then Apple has consistenly beat Google on hardware features, from the retina display Uh, no, so very much no. Apple was sooo late to the high density party. Android was shipping high density, high resolution phones a year before Apple did. Apple did leapfrog on the density front with retina, but they were definitely, unquestionably playing catch-up on this front, not leading the way. > camera innovations, the motion co-processor, a working fingerprint sensor (for a change) All of this was done by other companies first, and in some cases better. > The iOS Cocoa API is leaps and bounds ahead of the Android API. This is such a stupid statement. Both APIs have their advantages and disadvantages. > The major points for Android devices were not better engineering per se, but stuff like bigger screens, different configurations etc. Which was enabled due to superior engineering in some respects. True density independence, flexible layouts everywhere, architecture-neutral designs, etc... |