iOS 8 vs. Android: 8 ways Apple is catching up or pulling ahead

iOS 8 is here. What did Apple invent? What did it borrow from Android? And in what ways is iOS 8 better or worse than its big rival?

8. Widgets

Clinton Nguyen
Notification widgets, introduced in the iOS 8 update, allow the user to pick and choose which apps show up in the notification drawer.

Widgets, or user-set blocks of information (weather, stocks, email previews, news stories, etc), were present in Android since five years ago in the form of homescreen widgets. Apple quietly added widgets to the notification center, allowing users to install apps that will give the Notification Center something worth looking at.

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