Here’s the test. Take some normal people, where by “normal” I mean people who have never heard of TechCrunch or Daring Fireball. Give them brand new still-in-the-box iPhone 4’s and HTC Evos. Now ask them to make a video call to one another...

Apple wasn’t going to include a front-facing camera until they had software that made it useful in an iPhone-caliber way. HTC is happy to include a front-facing camera and leave its utility (and user experience) in the hands of third-party developers.

Gruber hit this one out of the park. 

Google's writing a great operating system and there are some great pieces of hardware being made to run Android, but Google's product development mentality inherently means that there will be rougher edges for users to deal with on their side of the fence.