The author confuses feature fragmentation (iOS) with API fragmentation (Android). I'd much rather miss out on Siri than not be able to install the latest hot ne

The author confuses feature fragmentation (iOS) with API fragmentation (Android). I'd much rather miss out on Siri than not be able to install the latest hot new app because I'm running an old version of the OS. I find that #1 and #2 are the only reasonable complaints. They're playing catch up to Android nowadays instead of leading as they did 5 years ago. Even though I'm an Apple fanboy and Android has a lot of problems, I can no longer automatically recommend iOS to someone switching from a basic phone. My primary concern with iOS is that, now that it is an "established" OS, Apple has fallen into the feature-driven update cycle that plagues a lot of software and hurts usability: adding new features to sell an upgrade instead of fixing old features. I fear that iOS will turn into Windows. There are so many interaction designs that, while amazing, beautiful and intuitive in 2007, are no longer that. iOS has accumulated a lot of cruft over the past 5 years and, more than new features, I'd like to see Apple reinvent the phone again.