7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8

7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 This legend of criticizing one another for copying the core functions and the noteworthy points, has actually been running considering that long and whenever there is a significant statement done by a brand name, the other claims that the

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 I really don't understand most of your post, Chandu.  I don't think anyone is "copying" anyone else.  It comes down to the users, really.  Let's take the example of third-party keyboards.  Android has had this

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 to be honest I agree with Scotf's  initial statement but not his final conclusion about security. everybody copies everybody else when something is a good idea, especially in the business world where if your worried that people

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 to be honest I agree with Scotf's  initial statement but not his final conclusion about security. everybody copies everybody else when something is a good idea, especially in the business world where if your worried that people

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Dark,The third party keyboard refers to a software keyboard which can be directly accessed in apps, not a hardware keyboard. So, Fleksy, for example, might be accessible directly from the rodor, something which, in my ever-so humble

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Yep. Android gets copied by Apple. iOS gets copied by Google. It's all benefitting everyone, in the end. I think it's probably true that Android will tend to "Get their first", but Apple will refine a good deal of

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Hi.I agree that Apple imposes ridiculously high security risks.I mean, come on. THey won't even let you access your var data partition of your device?Come on!I can see them hiding the /system partition, but the /var partition

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 I refuse to read any of this on the simple basis that this is nothing but flame bait. I do not take sides on Apple vs whoever even though I use an iPhone, I expect people to decide for themselves what they feel fits their needs best

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 I refuse to read any of this on the simple basis that this is nothing but flame bait. I do not take sides on Apple vs whoever even though I use an iPhone, I expect people to decide for themselves what they feel fits their needs

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Ah, I didn't realize the keyboard thing. out of interest, what bennifits would such a software based keybaord bring over the existing ios on screen keyboard? You'd still be tapping letters on the screen not pressing keys

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 dark, some android keyboards, like the fluxy actually have what could be called onscreen navigation keys. these could be a boost to accessibility(that is, for those firsttimers). cris: agreed with the last part of your post. URL: http

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 and bt, no one has yet broat up the "OK google/Hae Siri" thing. one couldn't possibly call it a coincidence? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 @Dark: Try Fleksy or NBraille, see how you like them. Thos are third-party keyboards, now limited by the iOS 7 sandbox, and soon to be liberated by the iOS 8 one.I'm not commenting on the merits of the security postures of e

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 @Dark: Try Fleksy or NBraille, see how you like them. Those are third-party keyboards, now limited by the iOS 7 sandbox, and soon to be liberated by the iOS 8 one.I'm not commenting on the merits of the security postures of e

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 I'd be interested to know more about these on screen keyboards people mention. The braille thing I am less bothered about sinse while I can still write braille I've not had the need to do so in around 20 years beyond banging o

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Dark, that's exactly the kind of thing that a third-party keyboard aims to fix.  Typing in Braille on your iOS device would be much faster than tapping out letters, hence it would be possible to write long e-mails, play intera

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 I wouldn't say it's that bad Scotf, it is okay for short things, I just wouldn't want to write a novel, or even one of my novel length posts on this forum . I actually use dictation fairly often to speed things up

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Hi.Well, I think the iPhone 5s screen is the perfect size.If the iPhone 6 has a larger screen, I may never get another iPhone since I don't like the idea of having a huge touch screen on my phone.As I've said before, if

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 @Dark: try Fleksy. Fleksy uses predictive input based on finger location and a dictionary, which effectively means that you don't have to know the location of virtual keys at all; you simply type as you would on a real keyboard

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Hi.Hmm, I may not be able to use the iOS 8 braille keyboard if it's anything like mBraille. I'm trying the free version and can't figure out how to type.I'm holding the 5s in landscape mode and am trying to type. Vo

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 It's not the easiest thing to get into; keep trying and check the instructions. I found that I intuitively used opposing sides with the phone flipped face-out (explained by some evolutionary process of brain development by someo

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 hmmm, I don't know about this braille stuff. It's weird.As for fleksy, I heard that you can get a tweak called fleksy enabler if you are jailbroken. This will let you use fleksy as a keyboard in the rest of iOS.Also, w

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Fleksy used to be for the blind. Then it got some recognition as a mainstream app, and suddenly (and tragically!) became inaccessible, requiring a spinoff. The effect that this had on the "Blind community" was pretty profou

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 MBraille has a weird V-shaped configuration by default, which takes getting use to. That said, it's way less frustrating than typing with the on-screen qwerty keyboard.I imagine if I had a bluetooth keyboard, I'd probably

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Well the touch typing in flexy does sound like a good idea, though at the moment I can't quite get all my fingers in typing position on an the Iphone 5 screen so I'll probably waith for the bigger screen on the Iphone

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 For example, "frend caster," the facebook app that works on Android phones and tablets? On iOS, its iPad only. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=1825

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 I think the iPad comes very close to actually blurring the distinction between a computer and a smartphone. Look out for the "Maxipad". URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=1826

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Hi Dark.Well, I can see where you're coming from.I just get so annoyed when so many people want these phones with 6 or 5 inch screens.I mean, when you get that big, you have a phone that's almost as bulky as the Nexus

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 @Trenton, I'm not surprised there is an Ipad only ap, as I said most of the things I've heard of that will work on one but not the other have been Iphone but not Ipad but I've certainly not seen everything. An Ipad is ind

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 @Trenton, I'm not surprised there is an Ipad only ap, as I said most of the things I've heard of that will work on one but not the other have been Iphone but not Ipad but I've certainly not seen everything. An Ipad is ind

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 @Trenton, I'm not surprised there is an Ipad only ap, as I said most of the things I've heard of that will work on one but not the other have been Iphone but not Ipad but I've certainly not seen everything. An Ipad is ind

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 agreed with dark on screen size. at the same time, I personally prefer something not too large, not too small. may be 5, 6 inchs. and no, no replacing my phone with a Tab of 9 inchs. that's too... what do you call it? URL:

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 It's iPad apps that are distinct from iPhone ones, yes, however there will typically be an iPhone version with a simpler interface. Skype, for example--nothing stops you using Skype for iPhone on an iPad, but there is something sto

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 H, interesting Sebby tht the fixes for Ipad are primarily screen based, sinse if indeed the Iphone 6 does come with a larger screen it might make some changes with this. I did think though there were some games and other things that

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8

Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 If you run an app that is not so-called "Universal", then an iPhone-shaped hole appears in the middle of the iPad screen, with a full-screen control at the bottom which when pressed zooms out to iPad scale. This is normall

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Hi.Hmm, the iPad is strange.The only differnece I have found with the iPad is that the settings screen is split.So, when you press on something like general, VoiceOver says selected general button. YOu then have to move by headings to

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Well if Apple does produce a phone with tablet screen I'll probably do that sinse it sounds like a good option. other than the obvious screen size and associated interface fixes, are there any real advantages to the Ipad? I

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Well, this is all very subjective. Of course, nothing stops you connecting up a Bluetooth keyboard to your iPhone and then having Skynet in your pocket. That is entirely feasible, works surprisingly well, and only requires one device

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 All this is fairly subjective indeed,  and I will agree I definitely see the advantage to having a big enough screen to touch type, though I don't think I'd personally bother with multiple devices just for that reason.

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Well, this is all very subjective. Of course, nothing stops you connecting up a Bluetooth keyboard to your iPhone and then having Skynet in your pocket. That is entirely feasible, works surprisingly well, and only requires one device

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 I guess your other iOS devices will get phone calling with iOS 8 since it has that handoff thing.I heard that you could take calls on your iPad and mac, but how about iPod touch? I wouldn't doubt it unless Apple decided to no

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 I'm with Dark; consolidation is key here.  What is the point of having more than one device to accomplish the same thing for the most part.  The reality is that tablets have not been as widely accepted as companies primarily hoped

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 A little off topic, but has anyone tried the new ios jailbreak mentioned on applevis using a tool called pangu? Does it work? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=182715#p182715

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 I personally disagree on technological progress or on needing to stay uptodate just to stay uptodate irrispective of bennifits Nocturnus. FAr too often so called new devices and technologies are not so much inovations as whims of

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 One comment about the time keystroke though... isn't there a dedicated keystroke for supernova that reads it out loud? With JAWS or any of the other screen readers that argument isn't altogether valid since all one need do i

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 Supernova doesn't tend to go in for specific  keystrokes that read set  information sinse it usually goes by   default tools rather than specifically built map files. For example, there is no key to tell when a page is loaded,bu

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 I do agree with Nocturnus here. may be it's just me, but staying up to date with tech as a blind seem to give me a better chance of surviving in a fast pased and constendly changing technology based sighted society. and the assum

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Re: 7 Major Android Features Copied by Apple in iOS 8 I didn't much like the limitations of Windows 8, even on tablets, despite the enormous productivity potential. But I do agree that we need to acquaint ourselves with the latest norms. Every so often some stupid person will say some