mjumrani
Forerunner
The trouble with Android...
Next year, Apple will be able to make even better use of its UI advantage through introduction of faster iPhone models.
These devices won't just be software bolted onto a quad-core chip; they will be devices in which the software and the quad-core chip have been designed to perfectly complement each other.
Until Google undermines all of its Android partners when it moves to introduce devices made in-house through its soon-to-be-acquired Motorola Mobility arm, Android devices can never match this advantage. (I know Google says it won't do this, but what it says and what it does don't always match, and that's the kind of nonsense which is attracting regulatory interest worldwide).
Most Android devices must match an off-the-shelf OS (Android) with off-the-shelf components to deliver the best experience they can, at budgets necessarily constrained by the intense competition that exists between vendors within that space.
This means that side-by-side comparisons between Apple and Android devices are inexorably unable to score points to the Google OS when it comes to the UI. And since the essence of the smartphone experience is the user interface, this is why Apple's iPhone 5 will be so dangerous, delivering a bang for the buck others will find exceedingly hard to match.
SOURCE: 2012: Apple's quad-core iPhone 5 beats Android - Computerworld Blogs