Author here :-) I'm not mad about anything in iOS 7 (yes, betas have bugs, and that's totally fine). I can live with gimmicky visual effects and useless feature

Author here :-) I'm not mad about anything in iOS 7 (yes, betas have bugs, and that's totally fine). I can live with gimmicky visual effects and useless features (Android has plenty of those). Obviously I don't literally care about frosted glass, it was just a metaphor. The problem is not what turns me off in a platform but what turns me on. I just think that on balance iOS until recently had a stronger combination of user experience and innovative features. But that has changed, and iOS 7 doesn't show that Apple has the fundamental capabilities (particularly in online services) to keep the platform interesting going forward. Overall, Android is right now simply the more _useful_ platform. There's almost nothing that iOS does better than Android, but plenty of areas where Android is stronger. I'm also not trying to convince anybody. I was just stating why I switched. And I will keep my iOS devices, not least because my extended family is locked into iOS and expects me to call them on Facetime...