Your analysis is very narrow sighted overall. While true that Apple not developing apps and such for Android limits the overall Android choice by not having Apple apps, taking that 1 choice away doesn't really impact anything. Now, if you prefer the Apple apps for whatever reason, that objectively makes them better for you, then so be it. The iPhone is the phone of phones. However, there are alternatives to the Apple apps available to both platforms that very well may be better. I much prefer Google Play Music to iTunes on my devices so I use that more. This makes the iPhone a much less compelling option to me as I can have the music player I want on any phone. Also, with the sheer number of apps there are for playing music, video chatting, mapping, etc. In all honesty what difference does subtracting the Apple apps really make? Unless you just happen to love them to death they make a very small percentage of a difference. 1/(x-1) in fact.
This exactly. I don't use mobile payments with my phone and don't even want to, so I can't comment on the Google/Apple pay stuff.
Even when I had an iPod Touch, I much preferred Amazon mp3, and now I prefer Google Play Music even more than that. That's available on both. I've pretty much always hated dealing with iTunes. Then there are also an untold # of apps designed to do nothing but play music stored on the phone. And of course there is the streaming services like Pandora, Spotify, etc. that are available on both.
As far as Facetime vs. Skype goes. There is one human being on the entire planet I would want to video chat with that has access to Facetime. Everyone else I would want to video chat with doesn't. Everyone can use Skype and Hangouts. So what exactly am I missing here?
Apple Watch vs. ANdroid Wear. Does anyone really expect Android Wear watches to be as deeply integrated into iOS as Apple Watch will be? ANd even if Apple Watch were somehow to be able to work with Android, do you really expect it to be as deeply integrated into Android as an Android Wear (or even a Pebble Watch now) will be?
Google Maps vs. Apple maps. There are numerous GPS apps on the market from established brands. Both Google and Apple seem to be quality competitors, but it's silly to limit it to just these two. Nokia Here Maps even tested out better than Apple Maps in this one test, which is my preferred GPS app and is available on both iOS and Android.
http://features.en.softonic.com/is-...kia-here-we-put-them-to-the-test-in-barcelona
Apple fans like to brag about stuff they have that's exclusive to them, but when you become reliant on that, you are limiting yourself. Sure, Apple's exclusive offerings are strong offerings, but with Android you get quite a few good alternatives as well if you don't want to use the Google ones.
Do any of the official Apple apps not have a legitimate alternative on Android? As far as I can tell, everything does right now, whether that be an official Google app or a third party app. Aside from the mobile payments deal, but Google is working on that pretty quickly it sounds like. I know there are some niche apps or games that are exclusive to Apple, but like I said, they are niche apps.
watch, but they can't get me 
