[tommyd]

Your thoughts echo mine exactly (right down to submitting a story that got no votes!).

The fact that this kind of bug would have a lower impact on Android (i.e. wouldn't disable major functionality due to the ability to switch out default apps), along with a general sense that Apple's software quality and support is becoming less reliably good (I would certainly have expected a quicker official response to this issue) and a slight feeing that Android is creeping ahead of iOS in terms of interesting new functionality is making me seriously consider the switch (partially as a kind of "protest" move, partially because I'm really annoyed about a major part of my phone breaking randomly, and partially because I'm curious to try it out), which I definitely wasn't seriously giving any thought to before this. Could work out to be a good thing in the end ;)