- iTunes Radio is an ad-supported free radio service, or ad-free for those who pay the monthly iTunes Match service. Google Music's All Access service is the odd-man out without a free radio service supported by ads, and probably suffering a lack of enthusiasm as a result.
- Mac Pro redesign, designed in the US and assembled in the US. The Xeon E5 with 12 cores hasn't yet come out, but you can expect it to be very expensive, as in $7000+ workstations.
- New Mac Book Air models include super-power-saving Haswell CPUs.
- New security features in iOS 7 that stops short of bricking your phone, but nonetheless makes it impossible to use it.
- iOS 7 brings the iPhone up to par with Androids running Jelly Bean 4.1 and later.
- Apple brings iWorks to the cloud, even if late.
Bad:
- iOS 7 is not yet available, but Android 4.3 and 5.0 are on the clock.
Copied:
- iOS 7 now supports animated, interactive backgrounds, copying Android's Live Wallpapers.
- iOS 7 includes automatic updates, copying Android, which seemed like an obvious thing to do, anyway.
- iOS 7 with Airdrop allows wireless (Bluetooth or WiFi) sharing -- something you could do (since forever) on Android, with anyone, albeit not quite as pretty as Apple's way.
- iOS 7's Today View in notifications is similar to Google Now. Notification availability without unlocking your phone is also the same as Google Now functionality.
- iOS 7's Control Center pull up, is Android's Notification pull down.
Notice that there's nothing in that "Copied" list that refers to Windows Phone or Blackberry.
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