1. Web access integrated on Google Search like this (http://
www.bing.com/visualsearch?setflight=vstest&setmkt=en-us&g=wp7#).
2. Standard UI components like UITableView on iPhone. It would help to
standarize the Android GUI, which is deperately needed. The GUI on
Android apps varies all too much and a simple thing like a table has
no standard looks (at least nobody is implementing the standard).
3. GUI guidelines. Should we have a tab bar at the bottom? Everyone
has it but no standard component exists that let you have the tabs at
the bottom. Both iPhone and WP7 has extensive GUI guidelines, but the
Android guidelines are very brief and not very specific when it comes
to implementing navigation (tabs, navigation header, back button in
GUI ++)
4. Adaptive bitrate for video. WP7 and iPhone has this and this
prevents apps that does streaming video to be performing well.

I have done apps on all platforms and I really like Android as a
platform, but I am much more productive on iPhone (Monotouch) and WP7
due to the standard GUI components that are part of the SDK for the
platforms. I was really surprised at how quickly you can build a app
on iPhone that looks really good compared to doing the same on
Android. Let's hope Google puts some more resources into the GUI
designer tools for Android and maybe bundles some standard components
that we can use after they are done with Gingerbread.

The app I have been part of developing on Android has > 1 million DLs
on Android and about 20 on WP7. Looks aren't everything I guess :-)

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