I completely agree with you as far as functionality is concerned. Both platforms have an abundance of apps for almost every possible application (hah, I used 'app' and 'application' with different meanings in one sentence!)/
That said, I feel like design-wise Android apps are seriously hampered by the multitude of available screen sizes. I have seen too many apps that seem to optimize for small screens and look ridiculously under-polished on big screens. K9 Mail or most Twitter apps for example rely on tiny text in undecorated rectangles. This is clearly appropriate if you want to cram as much information as possible on a tiny screen but looks out of place on a Samsung S3. A gradient and some text color/size differentiation would go a long way there, but look distracting on a small screen.
Thus, I have trouble finding beautiful Twitter, RSS or Email apps for big Android phones. Of course, on iOS, there is not much choice for Email at all...
(If you disagree, by all means tell me about those beautiful apps! I am still searching!)
Well, obviously this is a matter of taste and certainly there are plenty of ugly apps on the store.
But one of the things I really like about well-designed ICS+ apps is that they really feel like an integrated part of a task-centric UI and not some over-fetishized designer's extravagance. I think Apple's embrace of skeuomorphism has encouraged a flood of hyper-stylized but not particularly ergonomic apps that each exist in their own little unique aesthetic universe.
For example, I'd much rather look at Tweet Lanes, even though it's pretty much a stock ICS app, than any iOS Twitter client loaded down with drop shadows and gradients and organic textures:
That said, I feel like design-wise Android apps are seriously hampered by the multitude of available screen sizes. I have seen too many apps that seem to optimize for small screens and look ridiculously under-polished on big screens. K9 Mail or most Twitter apps for example rely on tiny text in undecorated rectangles. This is clearly appropriate if you want to cram as much information as possible on a tiny screen but looks out of place on a Samsung S3. A gradient and some text color/size differentiation would go a long way there, but look distracting on a small screen.
Thus, I have trouble finding beautiful Twitter, RSS or Email apps for big Android phones. Of course, on iOS, there is not much choice for Email at all...
(If you disagree, by all means tell me about those beautiful apps! I am still searching!)