It’s impossible for Google or Apple to introduce a new feature, let alone a whole new revision, to their mobile operating systems without it instantly being compared to the other’s alternative. While unveiling Android L yesterday, Google’s Sundar Pichai took a subtle dig at Apple’s new iOS 8 by saying that custom keyboards and widgets happened in Android four to five years ago. Three weeks earlier, Apple CEO Tim Cook was more direct in his critique: Many of [our new] customers were switchers from Android. They had bought an Android phone — by mistake — and then had sought a better experience.
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