Not only is the ecosystem better on Android, the fact that it came to market first is a huge positive too. No matter how much money you have, it takes a long time to build a proper OS.
I don't even really use any third party apps but Google Maps, Gmail, Chrome, and Google Voice/Hangouts keep me on Android. At the time (and maybe now?) WP8 didn't even have proper notifications and IE had issues rendering random websites which was annoying.
There certainly were many things Microsoft did better though, like their keyboard, copy paste, and the speed of the UI. It's too bad they seem to have given up on it.
I don't even really use any third party apps but Google Maps, Gmail, Chrome, and Google Voice/Hangouts keep me on Android. At the time (and maybe now?) WP8 didn't even have proper notifications and IE had issues rendering random websites which was annoying.
There certainly were many things Microsoft did better though, like their keyboard, copy paste, and the speed of the UI. It's too bad they seem to have given up on it.