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Apple iOS 9: Big focus on quality

Google Android M: Focus on quality end-to-end

"Rootless"

• Prevents malware

• Increase the safety of extensions

• Preserve the security of sensitive data

• Even prevent administrative-level users from accessing certain protected files on Apple devices

App permissions

• Make it faster for developers to get new users up and running

• Simplified permissions into categories such as location, camera, microphone, contacts, phone, SMS, calendar, and sensors

• Enable and revoke all or specific permissions as users please

Split-screen and multiple users

• Support ½, 1/3, and 2/3 viewing depending on apps

• Allow several users to share Apple device, especially an iPad

Web experience through "Chrome Custom Tabs"

• Give users looking at a webpage through an in-app webview sign-in and caching of web services

• Save passwords

• Autofill

• Multi-process security

• Customize the webview to a developer's preference with buttons and options in overflow menu

• Pre-fetch any links before the user clicks on them

App Links

• Developers can add autoVerify attribute that will indicate to Android that the links they claim they support truly belongs to the app

Enhanced "Apple Pay" and "Passbook" application

• Canada to be the first country outside the US to support Apple Pay

• Support banks, credit/debit cards, and credit unions in Canada

Mobile Payments through "Android Pay"

• Ability to pay for goods in retail stores by Android phones and NFC

• Make payment within apps for buying digital goods

• Plug in existing debit and credit cards from supported banks

Force Touch support

• Letting developers integrate Force Touch into App Store apps

Fingerprint support

• Add support for fingerprint authentication to their own apps

Power and Charging by "Doze", USB Type C

• Smarter management on power consumption

• Through a significant motion detection, it will learn when the device is left unattended for an extended period of time, then back off background activity to go into a deeper state of sleep for longer battery life.

• Send data or power in either direction

• Allows the device to send power to another connected device

"Proactive"

• Automatically provide timely information based on the user's data and device usage pattern

• Will also respect the owner's privacy preferences

Google "Now on Tap"

• Proactively surface specific actions from within apps on a device that suits the user's needs

"iCloud Drive"

• Offers better end-to-end encryption and faster syncing than traditional IMPA servers

"Google Photo" app

• Automatically back up photos and videos from the device

• Store unlimited photos and videos for free

• Stored on the cloud

Enhanced "iMessage"

• Support read receipts to group chat threads and read receipts on a contact-by-contact basis

New "Inbox" app

• Trip Bundles feature that will keep emails related to travel in one place

• Improved controls for things like Undo Send, Signatures, and Swipe to Delete

"Transit Maps"

• Bus, subway, and train route navigation

"Augmented Reality" Maps

Enhanced "Google Maps"

• Offline search mode and offline turn-by-turn voice navigation

Google Places API

"Trusted Wi-Fi"

• Allows connection to authorized wireless routers without additional security measures

Updated keyboard

• Accessible QuickType

• Redesigned Shift Key

New text selection floating toolbar

New San Francisco type face

Other features:

• "Home" app for managing HomeKit devices
• Siri API

Other features:

• Word auto selection

• Direct share

• Simplified volume controls