Ryan, It's amazing how many people still think that Android circa 2011 is similar to Android today, but they are completely different animals. I'm sure Android has improved a lot since then, but there's never a 2nd chance to make a 1st impression. (Or a 3rd chance to make a 2nd impression, see below.)
You'll most certainly find that the "it just works" concept is more applicable to many newer Android-based phones than the iPhone (the latest couple releases of which had many problems that had to be addressed through patches, workarounds, etc., upon release.) I don't recall having too many issues with iOS 7, except for a weird battery drain issue that no longer crops up.
At this point, I'll take my chances with the iPhone. There are too many Android phones out there suffering from feature creep (cough cough Samsung). They probably work a lot better than my old Droid Bionic, but for me personally, it's a little late. I've been drawn more and more into the Apple walled garden (iCloud, iTunes, iWTF), and I've built up a trust with the Apple brand name that is hard to break.
On a tangent, I'll tell you another story. I was an AT&T customer back when cell phones were "dumb." However, my service with AT&T got worse and worse to the point where I couldn't even get calls in the middle of Seattle, one of the most "unwired" cities in the world at the time. AT&T customer service was of no help. They blamed the phone, replaced it, blamed the immature GSM service at the time, yada yada yada. Finally I had enough and switched to Verizon. The dropped calls happened a LOT less after that.
However, when I decided I wanted an iPhone 3GS, I made the switch once again to AT&T, since that was the exclusive network of iPhone. I figured, "Hey, the AT&T of today must be different than the AT&T of yesteryear." Of course, I was wrong. Dropped phone calls galore, no bars (except at the office which had an AT&T microcell station anyway), and frustration all around. And I wasn't the only one saying, "Love the phone, hate the service."
Long story short, "It's different now" wasn't true for AT&T vs. Verizon, and I don't trust it's true now for Android vs. iPhone. Based on my experiences, it will take a LOT for me to make the switch away from iPhone and Verizon now.
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