Apple's iOS 5 is meant to be a big big step forward in terms of updating the operating system with the functions available on other platforms, but it should be mentioned that iOS 5 also brings some functions available exclusively for iDevices . In the Table above we have a comparison between the new functions available in iOS 5 and the correspondent functions available in the other important operating systems for Mobile terminals. You can notice that only 3 of the functions are available exclusively in iOS and we are talking about: NewsStand which displays all our magazine subscriptions from the App Store and Reminders, a new application that allows us to set alarms for certain tasks that we have to we do in the future.
In the table above, Android 2.3 Gingerbread seems to be the operating system that has the fewest functions corresponding to those of iOS 5, and Windows Phone 7 Mango has the most. This year Apple changed a lot with iOS 5 and the company hopes to strengthen its position on the market with this new version of the operating system plus iPhone 5 which should be released in the fall. What do you think about the comparisons in the table, do they seem to be representative for each individual operating system?
