I Wish The iPhone Did This

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When you download it to your Android phone, it integrates AddThis sharing right into the phone’s native user experience. Simply long press any link on your device, touch “Share page” and AddThis will help you share to any of the ~300 social networks, online tools, and services that we support.

via AddThis Blog » Blog Archive » AddThis Android App Makes Mobile Sharing Easy.

The fact the {en:Android_(operating_system)} allows developers this sort of integration into the OS is what tempts me away from the {en:iPhone}. Developers simply can’t provide this on {en:iOS}. This isn’t me speaking as a developer but rather as an end-user. And in terms of being able to easily share, it doesn’t help that it’s a pain in the arse to create a bookmarklet too.

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