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I agree. I really appreciate the richer inter-app sharing on Android but the absolute deal-breaker for me is the keyboard. Android keyboards like TouchPal or Swiftkey are so much more efficient and user friendly than the 2007-vintage iOS keyboard I just get irritated every time I have to use an iPhone for more than five minutes. And that's just for English. For other languages with a lot of accented characters it's not even a contest. I've been living in Vietnam for a few years now and people often mistake me for a native when SMSing because I write properly accented Vietnamese, which is easy with Swiftkey, whereas most locals write a crippled shorthand because typing all the accents on an iPhone is such a chore.

I think Apple's not used to having competition as agile as Google. Maybe their slow-and-steady approach was enough for them to power past Microsoft but much more rapid evolution on the hardware and software front is going to be necessary if they want to beat the entire Android ecosystem. Let's see what they come up with next week.