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UI is not only design, but also UX.

One of big Android advantages are activities and intents. It allows for application cooperation in a way that's not possible on iPhone. Even the default app concept is based on intent handling - and that's why I can use Firefox as my default browser, Nine as my default mail app and Sygic as my default navigation and send stuff from other apps over Threema. On iPhone, I would be stuck with Safari/Apple mail/Apple maps/iMessage no matter what others offer.

This also affects integration from third parties. There's no reason for an app to support just Dropbox, when there are intents, that all other services support. Unless you want to artificially limit the integration, or you came from iOS and are not used to that.




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