Really? Have you seen or used Jelly Bean with Project Butter? Even jail broken IOS can't compare. Apple really needs to step it up with the next iPhone and IOS because the OS is really looking dated. In fact, it looks exactly the same as it did in 2007 on my first iPhone. Take a look at the HTC One and then compare its OS to the iPhone. It will make you cry.
Yes, really.
I have used Jelly Bean, and it still contains ridiculous concepts and design 'features' that leave you wondering 'wtf'. Even the way it works and the technical incompatibilities mean that Android still has a long long way to go to convince me to change across.
In what way does the OS look 'dated'? The lack of widgets?
What people fail to understand is an OS is a 'wrapper' if you like. Your work is done inside apps, your work isn't done inside the OS. The OS is there to run your apps - and the fact that people don't like to hear is that iOS is still better at running apps than Android is.
Exchange support is utter turd in Android - where an iPhone can connect with no problems, an Android device simply refuses.
Proxy support is crap in Android - where an iPhone can have individual proxy settings per wifi connection - this is something still lacking in Android. Sure, you can set proxy settings in individual browsers, but that doesn't help the rest of the OS.
CardDav / CalDav? Useless in Android unless you pay for apps which provide the features.
Unified inbox? Yep - but setting up a GMail account sets up your mailbox in the GMail app, not the Mail app - adding it into the mail app gives two notifications per email.
Even stupid things like on the Nexus 4 - the toggles on the notification bar - they're a different nonsensical order in landscape orientation than they are in portrait orientation, and there's no way to change it. Also, what's the point of your name and photo in the notification bar precisely?
Given an hour with the Nexus 4 running the very latest version of Android available for it, I still managed to make the browser crash twice, along with the Google Maps application, and I even got a very confusing error message telling me that a system service had crashed and if I wanted to report it. How exactly is this helpful for a non-technical user?
Slow performance in Chrome with web apps... tapping a photo asks me which app I want to open it in, then asks me again (every time) if I want to open it with this application in future. Its unnecessary steps I don't need when I want to have a look at a photo.
Don't get me started on scrolling, which insists on wanting to snap me to either horizontal or vertical scrolling, and have to have a violent finger movement in order to make it realise I do want to scroll this website a different direction.
As far as I could see, the Facebook app wanted access to every part of my phone in order to install (even down to call logs and text messages!!) Why? Why can't I select what I want the Facebook app to do, like I do with the Facebook app when it requests access on iOS?
The gimmicky face unlock was just crazy too - refuses to work in anything but daylight, and another ridiculous point which is a very minor one but an annoyance at that, why do I have to push the enter key when I've finished entering my 4 digit passcode? I've entered the passcode, just unlock!!
Having a separate alphabetical app drawer is crazy too - i don't want to have to open up another area to get to an app I don't use too often but need anyway.
The lack of iMessage is the big dealbreaker though. On Android, some people have WhatsApp, some have Kik, some have Skype, some have GTalk - everyone who has an iPhone (which to be fair is 70% of my contact list) have iMessage built in as standard and activated which means that I know when I contact them I can do it over Wifi, and not use standard text messages, without using an additional app, and being synced with my Mac.
Sorry - that was much longer than I intended it to be. I'm sure people are going to come on here, tell me I'm being ridiculous, break down every point and offer me a highly technical workaround or tell me I can fix this particular annoyance by downloading something from the Google Play store, but that's not the point. What I consider to be an average user does not want to do these things - they want to get a phone and use it.
At the end of the day - iOS simply needs a few new features added and to make better use of the lockscreen and it will remain - as it is today - the more user friendly, reliable OS that it has always been. The iOS bashing is not necessary.
