Was browsing Reddit and came upon a couple of articles that reminded me of this thread.
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Originally Posted by Gizmodo
An iPhone Lover’s Confession: I Switched To the Nexus 4. Completely.
Over the past few years I've invested a lot into Apple's products and services.
If you come by my house, you'd find four of the latest Apple TVs, two iMacs, the latest MacBook Air, a MacBook Pro, more than five AirPort Express stations and Apple's Time Capsule. You could touch every single iPhone, from the first up to the iPhone 5, iPads ranging from first generation to fourth and we recently added two iPad minis...
The reach of Apple's products goes beyond my personal life.
As the co-founder of Germany's largest mobile development shop, I'm dealing with apps – predominantly iOS powered – in my daily professional life.
Driven primarily by the business I run, I tried to give Android a chance more than once.
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.
And then I got the Nexus 4.
When the latest Google flagship Android device shipped, I almost expected it to turn out as yet another "take-a-look-and-sell-it-on-ebay" experience. Little did I know...
Putting it into a single line: The latest version of Android outshines the latest version of iOS in almost every single aspect.
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Full article here:
http://gizmodo.com/5973073/an-iphone...s-4-completely
I encourage anyone interested in this to read that Gizmodo article. He goes into a fair bit of detail about why he switched as well as what he misses about the iPhone.
And then there's also this data point (which the writer accurately describes as more academic than anything):
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Originally Posted by VentureBeat.com
Google Play will hit a million apps in June (probably sooner than the iOS app store)
I think we’re well past the time when number of apps is the defining factor of a mobile ecosystem, at least if you’re Apple or Google. Perhaps not so much if you’re Windows Phone or RIM.
But it’s still an occasional cause for genteel indirect Google-Apple pissing contests in dueling press releases. And if the number is high enough, it’s still an indicator for smartphone owners that almost any app they might actually want will actually be available...
Google actually caught up with Apple in October — or got close enough that the distinction became academic — with 700,000 apps. The Sociable estimates that Google Play now has 800,000 apps and is growing faster than the iOS app store.
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Full article here:
http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/04/go...ios-app-store/