Does iOS beat Android at anything?

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I'm not a fan of many things about iOS, but in terms of performance, it is faster, smoother and more stable than android. Native android apps use the Java runtime, with garbage collection, which causes all sorts of performance issues that don't exist on iOS, which uses reference counting and no GC. In terms of performance, I'm not sure there is a single objective measure where android isn't clearly inferior, and much of this is due to the GC. Camera quality is more of a hardware issue than an OS issue

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I never have performance problems on Android. iOS always freezes and crashes. When Android apps do crash, it's always the same ones, which makes me think the problem is with the app and not Android itself.