It’s hard to find a better smartphone than the iPhone. It’s beautiful, it’s fast, it’s easy and as Steve Jobs would say, “It just works.” But Android is no slouch, and it gets one crucial feature so right — and it’s a feature that Apple keeps screwing up.Android is just better at notifications. And this week, Google widened the gap between Android  when it introduced Android 11. The new smartphone operating system makes the most annoying, intrusive thing about your phone easier to manage. Notifications in Android 11 are now grouped in three categories: conversations, notifications and silent. By separating conversations — WhatsApp, Messenger, texts, DMs, etc. — from the rest, it puts the most important stuff front and center.

Article Link – https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/tech/android-11-iphone-notifications/index.html

Discussion Questions:

1. Identify three key takeaways from the article. What did you find most interesting?
2. According to the author, what are the key factors that differentiate the new Android OS from the iOS?
3. Does this information change your mind about Android phones? Do you think Android phones are superior to Apple phones?

Source: David Goldman, “What Android gets right that the iPhone gets so wrong”, www.cnn.com, September 9, 2020.