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Originally Posted by K. Molen

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.

Wow. That's about as strong an endorsement of the Nexus/Android product as you're ever going to find. Thanks for sharing.

One thing I found interesting in the article is how Android didn't have the "bouncing" and "scroll views" in the OS because of the Apple patents. Well I believe that Apple has failed up to this day to offer home screen widgets for its iOS for the very same reason -- because they know it was first patented for Android and they can't very well go around suing Samsung (Android) if they are using some of Android's patented designs. And this just points out how questionable the US patent system is, and how stupid the whole litigation strategy is because the only one who suffers are consumers who are missing out on features in their mobile devices. Many of these things should simply not be patentable.

And then there's also this data point (which the writer accurately describes as more academic than anything):

Full article here: http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/04/go...ios-app-store/

In one of the earlier threads a month or two ago this was talked about -- how the Google store was growing faster than the Apple store and was now even in the number of apps. Now it appears the Google store will shortly overtake the Apple store. So much for the specious claim someone made then that developers prefer developing for iOS. The opposite appears to be the case.

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