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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?

7. Messaging

Clinton Nguyen
The Messaging app was updated to allow users to reply from their lock screen. Replying no longer exits you from the app you were on before.

  • By Clinton Nguyen Staff Writer

The messaging app was updated to include a microphone icon where the send button used to be. That allows the user to record a voice message, completing the circle of sendable media: text, voice, video, and photo.

This was already present a while ago on Facebook Messenger since its last major revamp in late October 2013. Save for one feature, the Messages update was truly just a game of catchup: sending your location. While tagging your messages with your current location has been a feature in Facebook Messenger since mid–2012, it’s been absent from Android’s stock messages app.

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