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If Google was all I did with my devices, then sure, Android is the way to go. But this article discounts pretty swiftly that there is more to a device than my Gmail and Google Now.

As for me, I like Google Now and will continue to use Gmail integrated with my iPhone's mail client, but I'm not willing to walk away from my decade of iTunes use and migrate my media elsewhere, and there isn't an Android equivalent to my AppleTV experience yet (are they even still selling the Nexus Q?), especially over not having to log in multiple times.

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You may have a point with iTunes content, but that's Apple locking you into its ecosystem. As for Apple TV, that's what DLNA and Google Play is for. Why need another piece of hardware when one will do?

You get locked into an ecosystem either way. The bet is on which ecosystem will be around for the long haul. Given how Google just shuts things down all the time, I'd have to reject that one. Right now the only way to avoid lock-in is piracy.

Definitely this. Switching to Android was, if nothing else, an exercise in finding out who really owns my data.

For a lot of users e-mail, calendar and social are the killer features of a phone.

Some people value their privacy so they don't use social apps.

Agreed on iTunes content. I switched to a Nexus 4 a few months ago and this was/is the biggest pain point, but is really only an issue in the car. I've filled the gap with my little iPod shuffle or Spotify on my phone, but it's obviously not as convenient.

I rarely stream to Apple TV from my phone anyways, so that was not a huge issue.

iTunes lock in? I thought iTunes sold DRM-free mp3 files like every other music store?

Since 2008, yeah. But the only way Apple got the license to sell the music online in the first place was if they DRM'd it, and you have to pay to unlock the songs purchased prior to the switch.

Movies, TV and books are still DRM'd though.

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