It is shockingly simple to get at least near the level of Apple products: don't let your vendors ship crapware on the device.
When you play with a Nexus device with vanilla Android and no crap apps installed by default, it's great. It's very comparable to an iPhone experience. If Google installed more of their 1st party apps by default, it would be even better.
Yet most devices shipped by Verizon have 7-10+ apps that are absolute garbage and distract from the experience.
It's entirely analogous to laptops. Windows isn't terrible. Windows combined with the 20 apps that Dell shipped by default is terrible.
Don't let the middlemen (Dell/HP for Microsoft, Verizon/AT&T for Google) define your user experience.
When you play with a Nexus device with vanilla Android and no crap apps installed by default, it's great. It's very comparable to an iPhone experience. If Google installed more of their 1st party apps by default, it would be even better.
Yet most devices shipped by Verizon have 7-10+ apps that are absolute garbage and distract from the experience.
It's entirely analogous to laptops. Windows isn't terrible. Windows combined with the 20 apps that Dell shipped by default is terrible.
Don't let the middlemen (Dell/HP for Microsoft, Verizon/AT&T for Google) define your user experience.