Microsoft has been making pretty great hardware and even the OS has made significant strides. That said, the applications don’t have anywhere near the consisten

Microsoft has been making pretty great hardware and even the OS has made significant strides. That said, the applications don’t have anywhere near the consistency of polish that I find in the App Store. Similarly, the Pixel hardware is pretty good. The internals are about as good as the iPhone, but something about the hardware fit and finish isn’t equivalent to me, but it’s very close. Same with the top-end Samsung devices. The biggest issue with Android for me is the consistency of the available applications. For almost any need I can find a well-crafted iOS app that both works well and looks great. With Android some of the most functional apps look like something from Windows Mobile in the mid 2000s. There’s also vast differences in consistency throughout the Android experience. For example, anywhere in iOS tapping the top of the screen scrolls to the top. Android still doesn’t have this consistency, some apps offer it and others don’t. Same with the swiping in from the edge behavior. For me, it’s these little things that Apple does well. This has been getting better but in general it seems to more closely resemble the Linux ethos where many things work, but are ugly or difficult to use.