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An article where a power user (app developer), who was well entrenched in the iOS universe (owned all iPhopne and iPad models), tries out a Google Nexus 4 phone and compares his experiences: http://gizmodo.com/5973073/an-iphone-lovers-confession-i-switched-to-the-nexus-4-completely In various self-experiments, I tried to leave my iPhone at home for the Motorola Droid, the Nexus One, the Samsung Galaxy S II and S III - and always switched straight back to the iPhone. None of those Android devices have worked for me - yet. ... It's now almost two weeks since I switched the Nexus 4 on for the first time - and meanwhile I completely moved to it, leaving my iPhone 5 at home. Do I miss anything? Nope. Except iMessage. More on that later. My motivation is not to bash Platform A over Platform B. On the contrary: I will try to summarize my very personal findings and experiences based on years of using iOS. ... Putting it into a single line: The latest version of Android outshines the latest version of iOS in almost every single aspect. I find it to be better in terms of the performance, smoothness of the rendering engine, cross-app and OS level integration, innovation across the board, look & feel customizability and variety of the available apps. The remainder of the article examines each aspect of that last paragraph in detail. If you're in the market for a smartphone, the article seems worth a read for a few reasons: 1. a lot of tech people, including power users, use iOS. Some might not be aware of what they are missing, if they haven't spent much time with recent versions of Android. 2. Android has improved a lot, and conventional wisdom about areas where iOS excels over it may be obsolete. If you're not a power user, then the article is of less usefulness and the platform distinctions less significant. (To me, the lack of third-party widgets in iOS makes it a non-starter, and almost any version of Android more useful. I also tend to think the differences between Android versions are a bit exaggerated. Older versions are more laggy, but with third-party launchers it can do almost the same stuff as ICS/Jelly Bean. Professional reviewers tend to focus on subtitles that casual users wouldn't notice.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/
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