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Anyone who depends on this "Find my lost phone" "feature" is a tad bit of a fool. All it takes it a quick yank of the SIM (which most thieves will do quickly after they walked off with your phone) and there goes the ability. Once the phone is wiped and slotted with a new SIM you can no longer find your lost phone. It's a gimmick, nothing more.
Android has the capability and may have given the capability away for free, but not all hardware vendors implement it. It also isn't as one-stop as the Apple application is. Is it given away free with your phone? Maybe, but maybe not with someone else's Android. People seem to confuse Android, which is a phone operating system, with actual hardware which has various capabilities made by many different manufacturers. Even feature sets vary from carrier to carrier.
As for multitasking, this one has been hashed out in a few other threads, feel free to revisit them if you want to join the argument. Short answer is, yes, Android allowed free-for-all multitasking and paid for it in battery life. Wasn't until they started locking it down that people got more than a few hours of life out of their phones.
Apple upgrades, no good reason? Hmm. Let's see. Faster processor. More RAM (512M vs. 256M). Better camera. Front facing camera. More durable glass face. Longer battery life. Slimmer design. None of those reasons may be good enough for you, but they certainly are to many other people.
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