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On the iphone/ipods/ipads that i have used (I had an ipod touch and have an ipad and have worked on an iphone for a job) I really hated the feel of the OS, the lack the lack of menus and the ease of changing settings. I always felt on my touch and ipad that if I wanted to do something not quite what was prescribed by the software I couldn't. Everything seems so dumbed down on IOS, so that there's no depth.
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I know that feel but still have to say that, despite a lack of configurability, their native apps are designed better than the competition. It's quite restrictive but it's kind of a comfort zone thing. A lot of apps work the way they work, and expect you to work the way they work, but the way they work is not typically fundamentally bad (Save for reminders, wtf were they thinking with iOS 7 reminders...) just different.
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What I loved about android was that I felt I had the ability to what I wanted, how I wanted. But with my last three android phones I found that after the first year they all started to crap out and become unstable. I don't click on random things, I'm tech savy enough to know how to keep my devices safe, and I've never been an app hog. I've got my core apps that I like and I really don't mess with anything else.
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Should always get in a process of backing up data so that you can wipe and restore every so often. It'll be a necessary process when new builds of the OS become available and any OS is going to get shaky with time. With an up to date device and the ability to restore in times of instability, you really shouldn't ever have to live with that kind of stuff.
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The other thing about Android that is turning me off of them is that Android has umpteen million handset manufacturers and they all put their spin on the device and have to do their own updates (unless you have vanilla), so as soon as a new update comes out if you phone is over a year old it's never going to get it. I am interested in WP's consistency accross handset manufacturers.
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I agree, but that's still definitely more of a symptom on the low end of the market. I'd steer clear of Motorola, LG and HTC for the same reason, all of them tend to include quite heavy customization and bloatware. That being said, a Samsung Galaxy S or Note or a Google (LG) Nexus are really quite standard across the board and have the distribution of updates managed much better than any of the other manufacturers. The Nexus 5 is probably going to be your ideal choice in this regard as it pretty well comes vanilla and google makes sure that the Nexus devices stay current well beyond their reasonable lifespan.
I guess my point with the previous wall of text was that there are distinct advantages that come with either iOS or Android. There's a lot of things that are uniquely convenient and positive about both. There really isn't anything that I can think of that makes me think "Oh man, I wish I had a windows phone so I could _______". There isn't really ever anything that a customer has shown me that I've found intuitive or better in any way. They suffer from their fair share of negatives as you see with iPhones and Androids, but don't really have any counterbalance to those problems like iOS and Android offer.
iOS 7 has added a lot of android functionality they were missing like notifications and multi-tasking (I think you can long-press for context menus in a lot of places you couldn't before as well, but not too sure, don't own one) and google has caught up quite a bit in terms of UI design and app availability in the last year or two. Microsoft is scraping by with essentially the bare minimum offerings you get from either of the other manufacturers at the same cost with little hope of real tangible advantages coming about unless you're looking out 2-3 years (and you absolutely don't want to own any device that long these days).
Can you even Candy Crush on a windows phone?