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Originally Posted by Wormius
With the Apple experience, you're not just paying for the technical aspects, but a higher level of service as well.
With my HTC, I am dead in the water now. Sure I can root and play around with it. HTC and Google do not care about my user experience anymore. When I discovered (a well known bug) with the stock email app, HTC and Google weren't interested in fixing it. For one thing, the user base is dwindling for my particular phone and the version of the OS.. With Apple there is definitely incentive to fix bugs. A huge user base like that would riot (eg antenna and maps debacles that were resolved).
Apple also has the clout to push developers to create better apps. I think a lot of the apps that Android has are poorly tested on all platforms (how can they be?) and give wildly different experiences. Personally I am at a point where I want things to work properly and consistently and not glitch out because apps aren't playing nicely with each other, or with the hardware/OS that's on my phone / tablet.
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This is a well thought out response. This is a very good point. One of the reasons why I bought a Nexus is the fact I get Android updates straight from Google for a year and a half. No waiting for developers at HTC, Samsung and carriers like Rogers, etc. to release them.
The fact that iOS 8 is available to iPad 2 owners still, says a lot. I don't really like Apple or iOS, but I get why this experience is so important to some.