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Because comparing Android to iOS is different. With Apple, they only need to design an operating system for ~10 devices, most of which are essentially the same with minor differences. Apple has the ability to tweak iOS to meet their goals on their hardware where as Google is tasked with designing software for a wide variety of hardware. I'm not saying that Google should be held to lower standards, what I'm saying is, give them a break for not developing an Android version for each phone.

While an app experience is bad, it's no reason to ditch an OS. It's like blaming Microsoft because their version of Minesweeper isn't as good as 3rd party ones and ditching Windows for OSX or Linux.

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