Not only is the ecosystem better on Android, the fact that it came to market first is a huge positive too. No matter how much money you have, it takes a long time to build a proper OS.<p>I don&#x27;t even really use any third party apps but Google Maps, Gmail, Chrome, and Google Voice&#x2F;Hangouts keep me on Android. At the time (and maybe now?) WP8 didn&#x27;t even have proper notifications and IE had issues rendering random websites which was annoying.<p>There certainly were many things Microsoft did better though, like their keyboard, copy paste, and the speed of the UI. It&#x27;s too bad they seem to have given up on it.