Apple wins patent on key smartphone feature

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Even if the camera is slightly better, the rest of the hardware is inferior. 1.5 gig proc vs 1.0 gig, half the ram, smaller screen. Storage is much more expensive if you want more than 16 gigs. And even if all that was equal, the not being able to change the battery would still be a dealbreaker for me. OS is a matter of opinion.

Hardware is irrelevant when comparing a compiled software platform to a JIT platform. Doubly so when it comes to third party applications.

Half of the processing power on an Android device is wasted on intricate Java ********. From a software engineering perspective Android is an abomination.

IMO, the only one who has any idea what they are doing is Amazon. They've taken Android and said, "This code is mostly ****. Take what works, delete everything else, and rebuild it so that hit runs well on this specific piece of hardware. The UI is also inconsistent crap. Fix it." They did. The Kindle Fire is the only Android device I've used that actually feels like it "competes" with iOS.