If he had wanted to make an article talking about the specific benefits of Android he could have gone to massive lengths about widgets, pervasive search, intents (holy crap I can't believe anyone would go back to iOS after using intents heavily), the stack-UI paradigm, background tasks, or any other features that already existed before ICS, but doesn't make sense to use them when comparing a new device that tries to polish and fix up the smaller details which are the basic critiques of iPhone users.

Jason has been an Android user for a while and him being partial to Android is not a secret. He clearly says it himself. In my opinion, this review was an honest assessment of what had improved with respect to earlier versions of Android; the comparison with iOS at each step is fair because that's the only other game in town.

Judging by all the reviews I've read thus far of the Nexus and ICS, I think it's great that Android is slowly catching up in areas where iOS was the clear winner, it'll keep Apple on it's toes. Can only be good for us, the end users. The only fly in the ointment for me personally is the sheer attention to detail that Apple puts into it's hardware, something that I don't think Samsung can ever do (maybe Motorola can?) with it's finger in too many pies (Win Phone, Android, feature phones etc.)

EDIT: My nitpick with the review is the somewhat flippant dismissal of Siri.

His points are are ios isn't as superior as it used to be and Siri sucks. The former is probably true of the OS itself but not so of the app ecosystem. The latter doesn't match my experience where Siri is, especially when driving, freaking awesome.

Perhaps from UI point of view, not overall. Android has been more functional than iOS since Froyo, mid-2010. And with Android 4.0 which brings a ton of new features, it leaps even more ahead functionality wise.

I'd like to think there's more to it than that.