Interesting. The iPhone is probably so popular because of people like me that doesn't use hardly any of what you are talking about...
I'd agree there. I worked for a company that focused on NFC deployments within advertising and it has been quite hard to just drop a tool that has some pretty decent use cases for me personally.
Not much to be said about case or no case. Valid point, but still pretty weak shot against the iPhone. I have a case on my iPhone so the odd time I may drop it, it doesn't get destroyed or scuffed. My case is minimal, and I would do the same with the 6.[/QUOTE]
I've dropped my Nexus 5 several times, though never onto pavement, and never had more than a small scratch on it. Maybe its the premium build quality of the iPhone over most other devices? Either way I'd be much less afraid of dropping a $350 Nexus 5 over a $750 iPhone. I don't mean to imply that the iPhone is a terrible device; quite the opposite. The iPhone has the best build quality on the market, but I can't help but be afraid of breaking it or having it slip from my hands if I don't have it in a case.
NFC: While I know what NFC is, I've never used it in my life. People aren't coming over to my house and jonsing for my wifi. If they are I'll spend the 2 seconds to give them the password. NFC tags are pretty cool piece of technology, but I would venture to guess you are in a very small minority of people that even use them, let alone know what they are.
I tend to cycle through WiFi passwords every 3 months, and generate them with KeePass. Is this a hassle? Possibly, but I tend to take things within my home network a little more serious than most people. Being able to quickly give out my contact information, including email and social media links over an NFC tag I have in my wallet is pretty excellent as well, as it assures they never mistype, and I can quickly do that while working on other things and not get distracted.
NFC is also the tech behind all of the mobile payment systems. Having Apple wall off usage of standard NFC records is confusing to say the least, considering there is an industry standard around each type of NDEF record. I think that Apple truly dropped the ball here by closing off usage of NFC to people.
Bluetooth: I have 1 BTdevice, and it pairs easily with my iPhone. BT earbuds. I turn them on at the gym, instantly pairs to my iPhone, I turn them off when done. No problems. Why is your car not pairing instantly? My BT earbuds do it just fine, and I never have to go into my Bluetooth settings to manually connect.
I have to say I'm jealous of your luck. I've been unable to automatically connect to three different BT car adapters that have worked with every device, my JayBirds headset, and my Motorola Keylink. I've had them replace my phone once already, and a friend of mine who has the same car adapter and Moto Keylink has the same problem, when we've never seen this with any of the Android devices we've used. While this is a small hassle, I wish it were something I didn't have to do every time I got in my car, since I'd become accustomed to BT connecting automatically and starting to play my music.
Workflow: Jailbreak your iOS and you can set your default apps to whatever you want. Ohhh, but why should I have to do jailbreak to have the functionality? I don't know, the same reason the rooting community for Android is so huge, because it gives additonal functionality you didn't have before? Look at the OPO? All you do on that thing is load new mods onto it until you find one you like. This type of thing isn't new to fix quirky problems.
I'm currently on 8.1.2 jailbroken, but there are things like Reddit apps that don't gracefully hand off to another application when trying to share a link. I can't use Hangouts as my primary share app, and that's what I use to talk to 90% of my friends. Heck, even FB Messenger isn't a standard app to hand off links to share. I don't understand why this isn't a feature. Having to open a link in Safari/Chrome, then copy the address, open Hangouts, then send the link? That's just terrible workflow. If you know of any apps that fully open the "Share" function to other apps, I'd love to hear about it, since that's likely the largest frustration I have with the iPhone.
I've been pretty happy with Android 5.0 so far, and haven't had any dire needs to root it. I can set icons where I want, set any default application I want, and my entrenchment within Google services (GMail, Hangouts, Google Now, Chromecast Casting, Google Maps, and Play Music) means that I have a better user experience than on iOS. That doesn't surprise me, but there are no other compelling services put out by Apple that have as many features as Google. Overall, Google has really hit it out of the park with Android 5.0, aside the few bugs here and there, none of which really affected me.
To each their own I suppose. This wasn't your own personal experience, was it? Either way, it was a very unique set of problems that I think are pretty weak, or have solutions. Sounds like the person wasn't gonna be happy on iOS regardless of what happened. Oh well.
This has been the experience of a few people. One of them is staying with iOS after moving from WP8, but myself and another friend are ditching the iPhone to head on back to Android. It seems your experience has been different. I think this is great, as having competition within the mobile market is what will encourage growth and feature development in new devices. Personally I'd rather have a 1 1/2 year old Nexus 5 over any type of iPhone when I look at the current state of things.