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Not the orignal commenter, but I've tried switching to Android several times so I feel qualified to reply: * Apple hardware is superior to any of the Nexus pho

Not the orignal commenter, but I've tried switching to Android several times so I feel qualified to reply: * Apple hardware is superior to any of the Nexus phones. Buttons don't rock without triggering action, screens are consistent colors, etc. * There is a hardware home button that doesn't change locations. This makes it easy to get 'home' from anywhere, and, most importantly, to orient the device by feel in your hand without looking at it. * The phone in't huge. * Battery life is better on iOS. * There is only one email app, not seperate apps for exchange / imap and gmail. * The quality of apps on iOS is vastly superior to Android. Both in terms of function, but also UI. This is partly because of developers, but also because there isn't the screen size fragmentation issue. I really want google to succeed with Android. I want someone to make a phone that's better than the iPhone. No one is doing it, yet, though.

pcl 14y ago
There is only one email app, not seperate apps for exchange / imap and gmail. The goofy mail experience was a big turn-off for me last time I tried switching to Android. The quality of apps on iOS is vastly superior to Android. This might be true on average, but in my case, I only really use a handful of apps with any regularity, and they all seem to be around parity on both platforms.
- jamesaguilar 14y ago
  This hasn't always been the case. I've switched between Apple and Android about three times. The most recent time, just a few months ago, I stuck with Android. Because while the long tail of apps on iPhone look and work better, the top-100/top-200 apps an Android are roughly on par with those same apps on iPhone. Since those are all I use, the question turns to OS feature-sets, and Android has iOS beat on that front. If you're in to mobile gaming, though, you probably need to have an iPhone.
  - eagsalazar2 14y ago
    And the top 3 apps I use many times per day: email, maps, calendar are way way better on Android at least if you are using gmail. Without exaggeration, if you use gmail the main experience on Android crushes iOS.
    - clauretano 14y ago
      Have you seen the new (last month) Gmail app for iOS? It's really quite nice https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gmail-email-from-google/id422689480?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gmail-email-from-google/id42...
      - bruceboughton 14y ago
        Nowhere near as nice as Sparrow though... apart from push.
sp332 14y ago
There is only one email app, not seperate apps for exchange / imap and gmail. If you enable IMAP access to your Gmail account, you can use the "email" app to access gmail accounts along with everything else. The Gmail app has a dedicated button for "archive" and it handles labels better, but you don't really need it.
- richardwhiuk 14y ago
  The IMAP experience of Gmail is possible, but by and large ime it sucks. Gmail treats a email has having 0+ tags, IMAP implementations rely on an email being in 1 folder. This is a fundamental difference.
  - staticfish 14y ago
    I think Gmail's IMAP implementation is a rather usable and clever hack, actually. By the way, everything is under one folder, both on IMAP and in the web interface. It's called "All Mail" (Archive)
    - sp332 14y ago
      GP means that each email is under only one folder in IMAP. In Gmail it's possible to have multiple labels on a single email, and this is not at all elegant to hack into an IMAP view.

pcl 14y ago

There is only one email app, not seperate apps for exchange / imap and gmail. The goofy mail experience was a big turn-off for me last time I tried switching to Android. The quality of apps on iOS is vastly superior to Android. This might be true on average, but in my case, I only really use a handful of apps with any regularity, and they all seem to be around parity on both platforms.

jamesaguilar 14y ago
This hasn't always been the case. I've switched between Apple and Android about three times. The most recent time, just a few months ago, I stuck with Android. Because while the long tail of apps on iPhone look and work better, the top-100/top-200 apps an Android are roughly on par with those same apps on iPhone. Since those are all I use, the question turns to OS feature-sets, and Android has iOS beat on that front. If you're in to mobile gaming, though, you probably need to have an iPhone.
- eagsalazar2 14y ago
  And the top 3 apps I use many times per day: email, maps, calendar are way way better on Android at least if you are using gmail. Without exaggeration, if you use gmail the main experience on Android crushes iOS.
  - clauretano 14y ago
    Have you seen the new (last month) Gmail app for iOS? It's really quite nice https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gmail-email-from-google/id422689480?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gmail-email-from-google/id42...
    - bruceboughton 14y ago
      Nowhere near as nice as Sparrow though... apart from push.

sp332 14y ago

There is only one email app, not seperate apps for exchange / imap and gmail. If you enable IMAP access to your Gmail account, you can use the "email" app to access gmail accounts along with everything else. The Gmail app has a dedicated button for "archive" and it handles labels better, but you don't really need it.

richardwhiuk 14y ago
The IMAP experience of Gmail is possible, but by and large ime it sucks. Gmail treats a email has having 0+ tags, IMAP implementations rely on an email being in 1 folder. This is a fundamental difference.
- staticfish 14y ago
  I think Gmail's IMAP implementation is a rather usable and clever hack, actually. By the way, everything is under one folder, both on IMAP and in the web interface. It's called "All Mail" (Archive)
  - sp332 14y ago
    GP means that each email is under only one folder in IMAP. In Gmail it's possible to have multiple labels on a single email, and this is not at all elegant to hack into an IMAP view.