In the reports I've seen the satisfaction levels are nearly identical, within the margin of error of the survey done.

Given how most cell phone contracts are structured I wonder how many users have really used both. I'm not talking about phone geeks and the typical person on HN, but the average user. If a person hasn't used both extensively then whatever one they are using now probably satisfies them (most people are only on their first maybe second 'smart phone').

I have an iPhone and while it has some quirks, overall it works great for me. I've only played with some different droid phones in stores and my impression was that the touch didn't work as well as on the iPhone. Is my impression reality or am I just used to how the iPhone responds so another type of phone doesn't seem right?

I have an Android, and my sister uses the iPhone. Android definitely has a much larger "drag distance" required to initiate the scrolling process. I'd estimate it's about a quarter to half of an inch before it will pass the scroll event to the software. I'm assuming this is by design and not a limitation of the hardware, because it has no problem getting pin-point accuracy and instantaneous response from when I tap something. I definitely prefer the iPhone's instant scrolling response though: I think it just feels more polished.

I still prefer Android for reasons unmentioned, but if there's anything it should be taking from Apple's play book right now, it's smoothing out what they have and polishing the rough edges.

Even if thats true, it depends what they compared the OS vs OS, or the iPhone hardware to Andriod OS, or the other way around, these reports are by far complete, there are a dozen of android device, and they all do work great or less than than, so ... its hard to compare them .