Andy Ihnatko, in his review of iOS 4:
Many of iOS 4’s “new” features are old hat on other phones. Custom screen wallpaper! Bluetooth keyboards! A built-in way to move random documents on and off the device! Multitasking! They’re wonderful! And they’re also features you could get in most phones since well before the first iPhone hit the market.
Which is par for the course for Apple products. Historically, they’d rather say “we did this feature exactly right” than “we did this feature before anybody else.” That’s a very correct and user-focused attitude, best illustrated by the way the iPhone handles cut-and-paste. It just plain works, and it works the exact same way in every iPhone app that wasn’t written by idiots. When I cut-and-paste in Android, there’s always that Christmas Morning sort of excitement, as I wait to see exactly how, or if, it’s going to work in this particular instance.
Okay, but the key here is that Apple needs to be able to say “It was worth the wait.” Can they say that about the majority of these new features?
Interestingly, the copy and paste nonsense in Android the only thing I consistently get upset about when using my Droid for “real” work.