- the performance and consistency of the UI
- not needing to customize the sh|t out of the UI to make it not suck
- battery life
- first party updates
- more battery life
- not having to root/rom to get the latest and greatest OS perks and security patches
- a decent selection games
- even more battery life
- good looking, full featured apps
- a nearly endless selection of aftermarket accessories due to a common form factor
- EVEN MORE BATTERY LIFE!!
- good pay apps that don't earn for their developers by raping your battery and your privacy
- decent cloud integration with third any third party applications
- airplay, facetime, imessage, icloud, and several other zero-difficulty services that can be used by people other than technofiles
- decent cloud or personal cloud based wireless synchronization, backup, upgrade, and restore functionality
- uncompromised hardware selection (you need a freaking PhD to shop for an Android phone that doesn't have MASSIVE compromises, like a pentiled screen and/or crappy battery life and/or a locked bootloader and/or an a-standard screen size that will end up letterboxing many games or distorting the layout of many apps and/or atypically oriented buttons and LEDs and ports and/or many other things ad nauseum)
I could keep going on forever, but as a fan of both iOS and Android, I think it's pretty clear that if either were the silver bullet to fix the all of the problems of the other without any drawbacks, Android would have 100% marketshare instead of the 55-65%ish it currently has, or iOS would have 100% of mobile profits instead of the 60-70%ish it currently has.
I know, it's crazy, but I own and love both platforms and am a fanboy for neither. Jailbreaking is the exact same thing as rooting/romming - it supplants the factory provided phone experience with the features said experiences are sorely lacking to most technophiles.
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