Originally Posted by
mooper
On the first... my understanding is that Apple and Google now have the same quantity of apps (it used to be that Apple has more)... is this not true? I've also found iTunes to be rather bloated, while Google Play/Music are simpler to deal with, though they have their weaknesses, too.
I don't know about quantity, since I only have about 20 apps. It is more about the choices and how they are presented. In iTunes, you could sort them in many different ways including ratings. In Google you cannot sort by number of reviews or ratings. It is almost like they don't want you to sort them. You can sort them by Relevance (no idea what it does) or Popularity. If you sort by Popularity, you probably ended up with a 3 1/2 star app with lots of people downloaded it. My point is that even iTunes maybe more bloated, I seem to be able to find things faster and with more accurate results.
Originally Posted by
mooper
(when Google Now came out and trumped Siri) markets the turning point.
You mean Google Voice Search? Except that it doesn't integrate very well with the phone. For example, when I do a "Dial *My Wife's Name*" on Siri, it will find it every time, because her name is very unique and is in the iPhone contact list. Now when I do a "Dial *My Wife's Name*" on Google Voice Search on the Samsung, it would say that her name was not found in Contact. The reason is that her name has some silence alphabets and Google Voice Search is not smart enough to find the closest contact matching the name.
I watched those youtube videos on Google Voice Search beating Siri in finding information too. But the the one thing that I really want it to do, it couldn't. And the reason I wanted it to voice dial my wife is because Samsung would not download the phone book to my car via bluetooth. It works with iPhone but not with the Samsung Note II. Also I read on my car's forum that the car's usb interface doesn't work with Android, only iPhone. My wife would kill me if I get her a phone that doesn't integrated with her car.

She is not leaving Apple anytime soon.