There has been a trend recently that whenever a new version of iOS is released, anyone who prefers Android over iOS will say that iOS is playing catchup to Android.

While that may seem true – Android had copy/paste, multitasking, and proper notifications first – they never think of it the other way around. There are plenty of examples of where Android has had to catch up to iOS.

For example, the recently announced Android 4.0, dubbed "Ice Cream Sandwich", adds some features which iOS already had, and in some cases has had since iOS began.

  • Screenshots – Android 4.0 is the first version of Android which allows you to (natively) take a screenshot, by pressing the power and volume down buttons. You've been able to take a screenshot on iOS (hold the home button and press the sleep/wake button) since the beginning.
  • Folders for apps – Another new feature Android 4 boasts is the creation of folders by dropping one app on top of another. Note – I don't mean that folders are new, I mean that the method you create them is new. Folders were only introduced in iOS 4, but iOS still had them first.
  • Customisable dock – The dock at the bottom of the screen in Ice Cream Sandwich can, to use a word often applied to iOS, finally be customised. Aother feature iOS 1.0 had.

I'm sure that's not all, but I don't actually care about new features in Android, so I stopped reading. I just wanted to make the point that iOS isn't the only OS playing catchup.