Again, whether you call it fragmentation, dev stupidity, idiot rooters, or whatever, the point is that the user experience on the iPhone is generally more fluid, smooth, and problem free than anyone on a given Android device. The nature of the Android market is such that devs constantly have to tweak and update their apps in order to run on constantly changing phone specs, software, etc. A developer for iPhone's app store has to make 1 app, and tweak it only very little. They almost always come off much more polished than in our market.
Those are opinions, especially based on a "given Android device" regarding performance.
My mileage varies a lot.
As for the magic of Apple apps - let's talk Retinal display.
It didn't happen at all because they so loved the world and it was so perfect.
960x640 is a straight 2x2 (read: doubling) of 480x320, the iP3gs resolution.
So, first people were straight-jacketed into a single form factor, then the iOS devs were (oh, yes, dealing with C# and the Apple Store is just not a walk thru the daisies) - but then, in order to compete with our handsets killing that at 800x480, they had to come up with a double-res screen to piss off their devs.
And they called that innovation.
And that nav app on a iPhone along with most others of any use whatsoever that are just so fluid and smooth?
Nice. They should be for what you pay in apps to get locked into that stuff.
I'll stick with Android.
Srsly - I handed out my Evo last July to the guys I worked with who tried to shove their new iP4 phones down my throat. That's all I did - hand them an Evo. 6 out 9 (literal numbers) got an Evo.
So, this whole iPhone is smoother mystique is a large degree of what you do and how you use your phone and how you configure it.
And after ten minutes with my 3D, all of the iSheep I've met have gotten way quiet, way quick, saying only -
I hope Apple gives us something like that.
And if you want easy - my 80 year old mom came to visit last year, needed a phone, I handed her my Evo. And within two minutes of launching apps (I showed her how to slide home screens and where the app drawer was) - her very words were,
Why didn't your sister get something simple like this instead of that crap iPhone she always complains about.
Nothing personal - but mileage varies, and I just felt the need to speak up on these opinions.
Like I said - my mileage varies - a lot.
