Keep in mind that many iOS users are as tied to the Google ecosystem. My email, calendar, and contacts are all Google-synced. Most decent calendar apps tend to use Google as well; ditto for mail apps like Mailbox. Many of the Google apps (like Maps) make it too easy to login, which the features it adds.
Exactly. I think there's a good article to be written about cloud-lock-in and its effect on mobile OS choice. But this isn't it. This is just Marco "whining respectfully" about why his opinion is different because he objects "to a huge, creepy advertising company having that much access to me and my data". Paul's original article, frankly, was just clear advocacy of the form "I tried this and liked it and you should too!", and I can't see how Marco adds anything that wasn't clear from the original.
Really, yawn. I'm personally very much in the Android camp (though not a big cloud user -- I like the photo backups and bookmark synching, but don't use gmail or Google Now much at all), and found Paul's "Android is better" to be a refreshing confirmation that as the market matures and stabilizes iOS users are finally looking at alternatives. But clearly not all of them agree; I don't think I needed to read Marco's blog post to know that.
Apple's policy of only supporting iOS definitely makes Google's popularity on iOS interesting. If the APIs open up a bit more it will be even more interesting--I would love to be able and never see Safari again.
