* The iPhone is ultimately a better phone device. It has more of a 'realtime operating system' and thus seems to manage application lifecycle as well as handling - get this - calls far better than the Android Froyo that I was using (2.2 I think).
* The Android had this cool top app icon bar - in particular, I could tell when someone messaged me on Skype. Flawless implementation, definitely outperforms iPhone which shuts it down (or its not done as well by the iOS
* iPhone has easily, by 100x, the best keyboard tactile / auto correction / word boundary sensing keyboard and typing system of any touchscreen, or anything, device. For real. It's always been this good, and Android has had 4 years to come close and hasn't with any 3rd party keyboard. Pretty bad. The Apple keyboard team is to be congratulated. I owe you guys dinner for all the time saved.
* The last point - seriously guys? It's a touch screen device that you all use! From version 1 the keyboard was this good to make up for the fact there were no buttons - I think Apple almost thought this to be a moral imperative. You can't just IGNORE this on Android with a half ass 'good nuff' keyboard that has suggestions that are all but obvious. No, 'I.like' is not the same as 'I like'. Get with the effin program Google. Today my iPhone corrected 'rightnwo' to 'right now'. How? As a computer scientist I could guess, but here's my thing - why can't you? And do so quickly. Android developers - use an iphone for email for a week, then switch back to what you created and tell me that you don't miss the iphone.
* iPhone is a RADICAL piece of hardware that trumps any and all others. Aluminum, unibody, blah blah ... no idea why everyone else is building the best piece of plastic that they can but once again, Apple rules the roost on that front. Analogy: Is Porsche better than Honda? Yes. It costs more but when your side mirrors fold in via twist of a knob, yes - that's better.
* Dithered icons and display smoothness - no Droid hardware I've used has this great aspect; when I was using my Droid X (albeit stock) its raw - think DOS versus Mac OSX.
* iPhone is too rigid - it has a 3.7" screen, not a 4.5". It doesn't do LTE / 4G yet. It doesn't have a 3D camera or 3D screen. It isn't a lot of cool / innovative things that Android phones are - Apple versus PC (open platform) - here we go again!!!
* iPhone app platform. After using both, its clear Apple does something above allowing spam / bloat / spyware (unlike Android app stores). They don't allow total ripoff crap apps on their stores, either. This is better than it seems from the outside. Really. Trust me on this - 99.9999% of application stuff is 'you get what you pay for'.
* Android has first class Google Services. This is GREAT!!! Navigation, Google docs, search, voice search, did I say the best navigation of anything, anywhere, including a GPS device? yeah, its true. The YouTube app is great. Google talk is first class (you get the ping when it happens - iPhones web version will not). Google voice is first class.
* Android - if something happens to be better (see above, it probably wont be) then you can use it, customize it and even make money from it. iStuff has app-only mentality which is probably too closed.
Stay tuned - next time lets talk about how the Apple Store and Droid Store and app development differ.
Stay chill - JKz
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