if u have used both u will know.

A lot of people can. Whats da point of hanging and lagging with big screen?

See my note 2 it will lag very soon so I need clear the ram very often while apple no need.

Rich people no time. Poor people like me plenty of time. 

I would say " rich and powerful peoples " are more concerning about money and their businesses than those gadget.
Very less of them are into techie stuff. Simpler mean better to them. iOS no doubt is simpler than Android.
My iPad now lag quite bit compared to my samsung note 2. The thing i hate is chrome , iCab , Terra or Atomic browser crash often on my iPad. I strongly doesn't agree to iOS are lag free as they do lag when some junk file building up after sometime or disk size is low. However i am still using my ip5 for GPS and some game like walking dead and PW-AA which is not available on playstore.
To make Android runs perfectly smooth , it need some little tweak here and there only. Now really hand itchy waiting this Note 3. Hopefully comes with much better battery life.

Rich ppl don't have time for all these tweak and mods. Very leceh for them. Better use that time working and looking for more money.

So Note III is design by Alien...     

maybe something wow! features will appear.... can send you journey to Alien planet!

Observe the camera hole layout....it's S4-like....so it seems that the current generation of Samsung (Design 2.0) has a vertical layout for camera and led flash.

I wonder what Design 3.0 will hold 

Popup Xenon flash???????

I pity anyone who hopes the note 3 design is gonna be drastically different than the renders.

Seriously, the only thing important now with smartphones is reliability. Whats the point of looking so awesome but have all kinds of software and hrdware issues? My note 2, for the past 11 months has been so god damn reliable in terms of stability and batt life.
These days im using 3G a whole lot more tgan before, and yet the up time is over 12 hours, which is definitely enough for a full work day. And it only got a lil wonky when i was experimenting with something a few months ago.

Really looking firward to another year with a new Note!! To hell with the stereo speakers of the Max lol. Not gonna sacrifice stability/reliability/quality of something i just cant live without these days.

Edit:Excuse my typos, using my iTouch which doesnt have swiftkey

Precisely, like what mydragoon mentioned in his "Is anything exciting" thread.

Agree..stability and reliability are most important. Those day I'm very particular on built material as I'm seriously liking metal body. However I realized we always snap a case to our phone, so no matter how beautiful the phone is, most important "beautiful" elements depends on the case. Now for me, besides reliability and stability, developer support and OEM updates are crucial for me in choosing a smartphone. Although Samsung is not known of fast and speedy updates, but at least most of the flagship device still receive android updates compared to the other manufacturer.

Not that I don't like good design phones with good reliability and stability, but there are things you have to trade off.

HTC - it has been bashed for few years due to lacking of new design from Desire to DHD to Sensation and all the way to One X. I have both DHD and One X and the build quality is top notch (metal and unibody poly-carbonate) and doesn't look cheap but still there are people dislike it. Then it comes the One which capture everyone's attention and everyone wow about it and I love it on first sight. But due to the unibody design, it lacks of expandable memory and removable battery.

Sony - whole front and back panel with glass coupled with water and dust resistance which is also a very pretty looking device. However there is no removable battery again and the flaps that cover the ports are flimsy and prone to wear and tear. Glass panel is easy to break if you fall it. Glass and metal panels are heavier too where nowadays 5 inch display is going to be a norm.

Samsung - it retains all the removable battery and expandable storage but made of plastic. I come to think that many dislike it is because the type of plastic used and the curve design it used on S3 and S4. There are many people like S2 design and the type of plastic used in S2 is very nice as well. I believe if Samsung change the type of plastic used then it should be fine.

Of course there are many materials can be considered by Samsung and I love to see the change Samsung might employed but for now (and for me) I don't see the issue in Samsung and all my phone I will put on a casing so for me, Nice Looking Phone vs Nice Looking and Widely Available Casing, I will always go for the latter one.

It's an upgrade.
From mehh stylus to a full fledged stylus

Better go exchange your XZU with a new set IF even a drop of water can make your phablet click. You got a screen problem it seems...lolz

Woke up spending 40 mins just to read the wonderful live comentary from u guys. Really great hardware upgrade. 3 gb ram, s800 proc, 13 mp camera. Just as rumors has it. Anyway the leather like feel back cover is classy. I am 50% sold. Cannot wait to rape the demo sets. Haha