Every OS has its goods and bads. Ios does have better battery life but that don't mean you can play Pandora all day and use your phone. I like what Apple does and I hope they stay true to themselves. They don't need widgets or multitasking. Most people with ios don't care about all that any way. They like ios because its clean. Now to some clean equals boring. So basically you will have a trade off you can either have clean (boring to some) smooth, better battery life, doing one task at a time but doing it well with out the system being bouged down with services processing in the background. Or you can have different screen sizes, widgets, the ability to customize, but needing to have the hardware to handle the heavy OS or you will notice lag. Also must manage the device to make sure WiFi, gps, and things are not running that may drain the battery. Also have to worry about the open market containing malware.
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Yeah pros and cons for both, and that's what makes both OSs great.
However, Apple, if they add widgets or improved notifications, it's because people want it or they think they need the overhaul. And btw, iphone has multitasking and some might argue it's far more efficient then the android method. (Please don't come back with the regurgitated "true multi-tasking" bit...that's almost as bad as the people screaming "open source!!!" every time any comparison is made between the two) Has nothing to really do with staying true to themselves. But that being said, it's not as if they're going to depart from their clean and shiny UI. I'm sure their UI programmers will figure out a clean and shiny way for widgets and notifications too.
Further, I don't think we're going to notice any performance decline if Apple adds widgets or notifications. Apple can be accused of a lot of things, but one thing no one can deny is that Jobs/Apple are perfectionists to the point of almost OCD. They're not going to release ios5 until they're completely satisfied with it (meaning, at the very least, the same UI experience, performance-wise as their current OS). It's not going to get worse, it may not get better, but it surely isn't going to get worse.
Android has iPhone beat on customization, out of the box. That's undeniable, and that's something Apple won't change. With jailbreak, you can do plenty as far as customization, including adding widgets, status bar notifications and theming. But new notifications and widgets as a standard feature doesnt necessarily mean they're not being true to themselves.
I think ios5 is going to be a big deal, and some outlets are already calling it "revolutionary"...yes, revolutionary, not evolutionary. Apple is always on the cusp of technology and the misconceptions that people have about the company are silly. Remember, just last year there were people saying things like "apple would NEVER release a Verizon iPhone because their business model is one product and they don't know how to adapt to change" or some lame crap (I myself got into an argument with one poster, don't remember his name, about how ridiculous that assertion was).
We're all benefiting by all this competition...i for one hope Apple never stops pushing the bar haha
(waiting for the fanboys to say "Why are you here?? Go marry an iPhone!")
