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by threeseed 3557 days ago
Every app you listed is a 'power user' app. Naturally they will be better in Android since the platform is more open in this area.

But in the sort of everyday apps most people use there isn't really a contest. Android lags far behind in overall polish.
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bad_user 3557 days ago
I'm a heavy app user and imho that's a myth, because people end up being naturally biased towards the platform they've been using, once they learn about what's good or not.

And even if I can feel my own bias, I really think Android is the more polished one, OS & apps. I could enumerate all sorts of reasons for why, but then you'd hand-wave it as not being relevant for moms using apps that could have been web pages :-)

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threeseed 3557 days ago
I spent years as a mobile developer and have commercially worked on top tier apps for Android and iOS.

It's not a myth. Product Managers do look at the demographic split and invest more into iOS development. Also the fact that iOS is a more coherent platform i.e. Almost all users are on latest version means more resources on polish.

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