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Default Is there a single useful Apple iOS camera capability that isn't already on Android?

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Why are you concerned with what is or isn't between the two? Why does it
matter what anyone thinks? If you don't like iPhone or Apple products,
don't buy it. It's that simple. Instead, whiners such as yourself go to
extremes with attempts to prove a point usually caused by your own
inferior and invidious issues. Get over it and stop crossposting because
they no longer give you attention.


The Apple iOS users always *claim* that their camera can do things that
Android cameras can't, yet nobody can get an answer out of them as to what
on earth that could possibly be.

But, they're positive that their cameras are better than Android cameras.
In fact, they're positive that their software can "do stuff" that Android
can't do.

Yet, they can't think of a single thing that they can do that Android
doesn't do, where it's clear that there are tons of things that Android
does that iOS can't hope to do.

SO the question is what on earth are they thinking that iOS cameras can do
that Android cameras don't already do. You can't get the answer out of them
because it's their religion so they just believe it.

But not everyone is a believer in everything the Apple Marketing God tells
them to believe.

I am interested in psychology where the psychology of a guy who does his
own home repair (eg if he runs his own smoke test to fix lean condition
codes, he's a totally different type of person who sends the car to the
stealer for the same task) or a guy who is concerned with chromatic
aberration is a totally different kind of person than someone who takes all
their photos with a mobile device.

It turns out that the person who loves iOS, psychologically, is a cripple
in many ways, just like the operating system is, in that they seem to want
to take *all* their directives from the Apple Mother Ship, who is, by the
way, perfectly happy to oblige them (by feeding them exactly what they want
to hear).

Hence, the Apple iOS device users actually think their "cameras" take
decent pictures (because that's what the Mother Ship told communicated to
the Apple Marketing GPU embedded in their frontal cortex).

What's worse, if you point out the truth to them, they take it as an
affront to their religion, in that their religion knows no facts whatsoever
- and - in fact - they actually truly believe that there is some
functionality (any functionality) on iOS that is not already on Android.

That's just not true.

There is absolutely no fumnctionality whatsoever (camera or otherwise) that
is on Apple iOS products that isn't already on Android - and - since
Android is a superset - there is tons of functionality on Android that is
not allowed by Apple for iOS users.

Things like the ability to organize your desktop any way you want which are
so trivial on Android that it's utterly shocking that the simplest of
organizational tasks are impossible on iOS.

For example, this is a screenshot of my one desktop screen, which is
impossible to even get close to on all my iOS devices.
http://i.cubeupload.com/DHN8PC.gif

It's so trivial to set up the phone the way I like on Android that when I
try to organize iOS, it's amazing how crippled the entire platform is.

It's a verifiable fact that the Apple iOS user is crippled (by Apple) in
what they can do (and their psychology is that they feel "safe" by being
crippled in what they can do), and yet, the hardware is "about the same" as
on Android (so it's not the hardware that is crippling what the iOS apps
can do).
How are they going to load any app launcher?
Where is the app drawer functionality on iOS?
Why can't iOS users put app icons in different folders?
Why can't they simply delete any app icon they want to?
Why can't they do something as simple as name an icon to what they want?
Where's the youtube without ads functionality on iOS?
What about bit torrenting on iOS?
Heck, why can't iOS even tell the user the unique cell tower ID anymore?
Why can't iOS give a graph of the wifi signal strength over time?
Where's the FM radio on Apple devices if the user wants one?
What about expandable storage if the user wants it?
What about a user-replaceable battery upgrade if the user wants it
(this list of what Androidd does that Apple iOS can't goes on and on).

Meanwhile, the Android user, psychologically, is a completely different
user who, mostly, just buys on price performance is is willing to
understand and listen to facts about the platform.

So, as both an Android and iOS user, all I'm trying to find out is what (if
anything) can iOS do that Android doesn't already do, where this question
is specifically related to cameras.

I'm not afraid of the truth - but so far - the truth seems to be there is
absolutely nothing. And yet, their religion is such that they swear there
must be something (anything!) that Apple iOS devices can do that the
Android devices don't, by way of meaningful functionality.

Fine. I'm happy for them (and for me).
And yet, they still can't name a single bit of useful functionality.

Why not?