Re: Additions to the iOS/Android Features Document

W Wed, 15 May 2024 17:10:24 -0700, sms napisal:

Quite a few updates to the document recently.
 iOS Features
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54i eSIM Transfer Between iPhones  55i Convert physical SIM to eSIM  56i Satellite SOS on iPhone 14 and 15 models.   Android Features
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226a. Ability to disable the use of cell towers, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi when determining location.  227a. Change the "Wake" Word for Google Assistant  228a. Migrating Apps to a New Device  229a. Ability to Generate a List of All Apps on Device  230a. Data Measurement, Data Warnings, and Data Stops  231a. PDANet Support for Hotspot on Plans with No Hotspot  232a. MMS (Photos & Group Text) Support on AT&T MVNOs     56 iOS & iPhone Features Which [many] Android Users Wish they Had &
  232 Android & Android Phone Features Which [many] iOS Users Wish they Had    <https://tinyurl.com/iOS-Android-Features>
  123 Pages of Extensively Referenced Information with Hundreds of Citations 

That's a well researched list of differences between the platforms.
The ability to list the apps to a file is useful because most of the APK
organizers ask you if you want to create a URL out of that list, so you can
send it to other people (or use it yourself) by just clicking on the Google
Play Store links to each app on your system. It's very convenient & efficient for archiving your apps and for migration.
Migrating the apps is a big feature of Android, as the original APK is
stored on the device for every app installed, even default system apps.
This is useful when the app is no longer on the Google Play Store (which
happens) or if the version you like is no longer on the Google Play Store
(which happens even more often). You'll never lose your app APK this way.
Unfortunately, iOS can't do any of that, and it's all automated on Android.
So you always have the original APK and it always works on another phone.
The only problem is the APK for every app is named "base.apk" but the app
extractors take care of the renaming base.apk to the original app names.
The app extractors copy & rename that APK which you can then use on any
Android phone. With iOS, the IPA isn't saved on the device so you have to
manually save it using iTunes and even then it won't work on any phone.
You can also migrate the exact placement of each folder and app icons
(shortcuts) with Android, such as how Nova will save your entire homescreen
to a file which can be read into any other phone for the exact placement.
If the app isn't yet installed, there are no worries. the launcher takes
care of that by graying out the icon which when you tap on it, it goes and
gets the correct app off the Google Play Store (or whatever store you want
to get it from). On the new phone, you don't do anything but load the homescreen saved file
& tap on the grayed out icons, and soon, you've duplicated the phone setup.
In addition, for organizing, if you want, Android can have any app shortcut
in multiple locations on your homescreen, which can't be done on iOS. You
can also hide the app shortuct if you want, and you can rename any app
shortcut, which also can't be done on iOS (for example, you can rename
system apps that have similar names such as phone to samsungphone or
whatever you want). None of that organization is possible with iOS.
You can also lock the screen location of all folders and app icons.
I don't know if iOS can do that though.
Some people don't like docks, where with Android launchers, you can remove
the dock, but with iOS, you have to have a dock even if nothing is in it.
I didn't check if all of that is in your document. Is it?
If you need to ask questions, let me know as I've done everything above.