Today I had two experiences that really highlighted the differences between iOS and Android. First we needed some screenshots of our Android app for the Amazon Android marketplace. After a lot of research it appears that the only ways to take screenshots in Android involve either 1) rooting your phone or 2) working with a development environment on your PC while the phone is plugged in to the PC. Never of these options is pretty. By contrast on the iPhone you can click two buttons and instantly take a screenshot. It takes a couple seconds and is super simple. This is iPhone's UI elegance in all its brilliance.
Later we were testing to see how our high end creative engines would work on an Android tablet. We think that long term tablets will be a great platform for building creative products like greeting cards, photo books, custom calendars, etc. Our creative product engine is a high end Flash app. As might be expected, the app ran great on Android tablets. Apple doesn't support Flash so we are just totally out of luck on the iPad. This is where the open nature of Android outshines Apple's closed architecture.
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