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I remember switching to Android way back whenever the iPhone 3gs was "second-best" iPhone (was the 4 the next?), from the 3gs.

The 3gs had perfectly functional "play my xyz playlist", "next song," "play songs by artist" functionality, and to this day I don't understand why it took so long for Google to implement it, and why the implementation is so shitty.

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The issue is google doesn't care about they're users. As long as it's good enough to keep the data-gravy-train going.

Well, it’s probably not that bad. I think it’s more like google makes everything work ok, apple tries to really nail core functionality and let the rest slide.

Music interaction is a great example of the trade off.

Not sure why you're being downvoted. Google has different business model than Apple and expecting it to care about user experience in the same way simply doesn't make sense. And yes, they mostly care about data, because that's what they're good at - collecting data, analyzing it and turning it into profit.

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