If you go into something hating it, you're destined to not enjoy it. At any rate, I wouldn't have recommended you buy that phone last year. Stock Android, IMO, is always best. Anyhow. My considerations on your points:
> The "Play Store" is filled with low-brow, tacky crap (above and beyond that of Apple's "App Store").
Low barrier to entry means you get a bit of everything. There are quality apps in there, too.
- Never experienced this. This seems to be a motorola complaint, not an Android complaint.
- No idea what this is about. My phone application has a list of contacts built into it.
- My Nexus 5 (nor my Nexus 4, nor my Nexus S) has had bloatware. Again, a motorola complaint...
- Never experienced these issues. Particularly media--there has always been three volumes for me: Alarms, ringtones/notifications and media (games, music, video).
- The softbuttons on the front of the device work just as well as a physical, tactile button. Just because a button is physical does NOT mean that it gets any special treatment by the OS. In android, if you hit the "Home" softbutton, you go home immediately. The softbuttons work on a plane off of that crashing apps run on ;-)
> The "Play Store" is filled with low-brow, tacky crap (above and beyond that of Apple's "App Store").
Low barrier to entry means you get a bit of everything. There are quality apps in there, too.
- Never experienced this. This seems to be a motorola complaint, not an Android complaint.
- No idea what this is about. My phone application has a list of contacts built into it.
- My Nexus 5 (nor my Nexus 4, nor my Nexus S) has had bloatware. Again, a motorola complaint...
- Never experienced these issues. Particularly media--there has always been three volumes for me: Alarms, ringtones/notifications and media (games, music, video).
- The softbuttons on the front of the device work just as well as a physical, tactile button. Just because a button is physical does NOT mean that it gets any special treatment by the OS. In android, if you hit the "Home" softbutton, you go home immediately. The softbuttons work on a plane off of that crashing apps run on ;-)