I wouldn't consider books and music apples ecosystem. How can "Apples" ecosystem include things that arent related to Apple? Kindle, amazon etc. Apples ecosystem are devices and how they only work with each other.
Lightning connectors sole purpose was to increase Apples revenue but selling rights to use it, hence the built in security chip. China manufactures have already cracked it though.
There have been issues with Apple products for years that haven't been corrected. Facebook notifications not making an alert sound is one of the most notorious. Some say its because of the app itself which may or may not be the truth but its been an issue since iOS 5.x. There are plenty of other issues too, here is an annoying one I'm personally dealing with....
We are on reboot issues for the N10 and I bet you'd be hard pressed to pick up an iOS device that's more then a month old that hasn't had springboard crash (phone crashed).
Sorry about bringing it up but I don't find Apple devices any better then Android devices in reliability or anything else for that matter and I'm a heavy Apple user as long as Android...
Well you guy gripe about talking about Apple, but okay. My reply to the original post was that iDevices are NOT locked down to just Apple ecosystem in terms of music, movies, podcast, etc I am fully aware of what an ecosystem is, but Amazon Instant video available on all iDevices.. Not so with Android outside of Amazon's forked version. Kindle, Audible, Vudu, Amazon for movies buy, rent or download. If Apple was so hell bent on forcing everyone to only use their ecosystem, then they wouldn't have allowed these other apps. However, Apple isn't a dumb as many folks think. You take them approving all Google stuff. Google Maps, Google Earth, Youtube, updated Google Email and even gave it push capability. Apple realizes, hell if you can get all the good stuff that Google offers on an Apple device that is a feather in their cap and another selling point for their products. Why bother buying and Android? Its good for Google too, cause they make money selling ads.
Lightening connector was designed so that Apple could continue on their thinner lighter kick and and if it makes them some money too, why not? Every iDevice I purchased comes with a cable. I have never had issues with notification in Facebook. I've never had my iPad's springboard on me, I have seen it with iPhone. Apple devices are not perfect, but in my opinion the out of the box user experience is way ahead of Android. Most of this has to do with the simplicity of iOS, while Android allows for a lot more customization. I now own a Nexus 7, Nexus 10 and iPad 4, iPhone 5, well let me say I owned a Nexus 10, that bad boy went back today. I will try again in a couple of months. I had a choice to decide between returning the iPad 4 or the Nexus 10. Unfortunately for Google due to the issues I've had withe freezing up and rebooting and absolutely pathetic customer service and support. They lost me on this one. Nexus 7 though is running great with no issues. There is much to like about the Nexus 10 and because of the front facing speakers, nice display and customization that is missing from iOS I actually wanted to keep the Nexus 10, but due to the short return window for either device I had to make a decision. I love how you compare a quick springboard to total freeze and reboot, which takes a heck of a lot longer and in my experience was happening a great deal running my experience.
Anyway... We could go back and fourth till the cows come home. You aren't going to convince me and I am not going to convince you so, we'll just have to agree to disagree and leave it there. Bottom line is people should get whatever makes them happy, all the rest ultimately doesn't matter. I have it a good country try, it just didn't work out! I have no hard feeling with Google and will certainly give another Google device a try in the future.
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