Well I strictly was talking about the iPhone , on iOS , so I can ' t talk about you iPad pro . I can talk about both because I had the iPhone 7 myself for 3 weeks I didn ' t just happen too look at a friend ' s iPhone for some brief moments . I do the comparison against the iPad because that ' s the only iOS device I own , currently . But you are applying this idea that iOS is this terrible software but Android isn ' t . No , I ' m not . I never did . Stop putting words into my mouth . Android is just a Linux deviationNo , it ' s not . The big difference here comes down to what we mean by Linux . People use the term Linux to mean many different things . At its most basic , Linux means the Linux kernel . A kernel is the core part of any operating system . Android uses the Linux kernel under the hood . Because Linux is opensource , Google ' s Android developers could modify the Linux kernel to fit their needs . But when you boot an Android device , the Linux kernel loads just like it would on a Linux distribution . However , much of the other software is different . Android doesn ' t include the GNU C Library glibc used on standard Linux distributions , nor does it include all of the GNU libraries you ' d find on a typical Linux distribution . It also doesn ' t include an X server like Xorg , so you can ' t run standard graphical Linux applications . Android is just a Linux deviation , and is strung between multiple different types of SoCs , it can ' t be as optimized . All those SoCs are based on essentially the same ARM architecture , so they ' re not really that different . All the new innovations that we ' ve seen in mobile chips the last few years , Intel and AMD are implementation of what they have already done since 1995 fully OoO , dualchannel memory , embedded memory controller , etc . It ' s all the same , whether it ' s on an Apple , Qualcomm or Samsung chip . You are so easily against Apple you are missing the fact that android hasn ' t done anything better in your argument . That ' s just bs and the exact opposite of what is true , in fact . The questions of doing something better is down to what one thinks of better . In terms of general OS features , the case has been overwhelmingly in favor of Android , as they have introduced almost all new features , with iOS following after iOS 7 itself is a an overhaul that implements certain key features from Android . As for things like general smoothness and what not , Android has , as you know , been pretty terrible in the past . They ' ve steadily gotten better and better . First with KitKat , then by completely changing their look with Lollipop , and now even more so with Nougat . It has gotten to the point that it runs smoother than iOS . And one of the reasons isn ' t just because Google has gotten better , but that iOS has gotten worse . iOS 6 was , from only a software point of view , ran smoother than iOS 10 does today . iOS 10 today has these random jitters and frame drops that I never remember having with my old iPad 3 . But you must also agree that android drops frames , is unpolished , and can ' t get on board with its own material design . I do , very much indeed . Despite being better , they both have problems . Android as much as iOS . And that ' s even when we ' re talking about stock Android . Forget about interfaces like Samsung ' s TouchWiz now called Grace , which doesn ' t even compete with iOS .