iPhone vs. Android -- part 1, Apps

My Sprint Blackberry contract ends next month, in mid-August.  So now it's time to overanalyze the decision on which phone to replace it with.

Basically as far as I am concerned, there are two choices: the current iPhone on AT&T or the current Android phone, HTC EVO on Sprint.  I currently have an iPod touch and my wife has an iPhone so that would tend to bias me toward the iPhone, but of course the quality and price of AT&T's network is a big negative.

If I could get an iPhone on Sprint it would be a no-brainer, but that's another topic for another post.  In this post I will look at apps.

Apps are a big part of the smart phone experience.  So the first thing I decided to do is see which of the apps that I use regularly on my iPod have Android equivalents.  Here is what I found:

• DISH network -- this app allows me to view program guides and remotely set my DVR to record programs.  There doesn't appear to be an Android equivalent.  However that's not a big loss as I seldom use this app and half the time I do, it doesn't work anyway. 
• AOPA airports -- "Android App coming soon" according to the AOPA website.  In reality I seldom use this one either because I have plenty of other convenient online sources for this data, so maybe no problem. 
• ESPN score center -- Just became available last month, more than a year after the iPhone version came out.   While it's good this is available, the length of the lag is not a good sign for Android. 
• FlightAware -- not available on Android.  No indication it will be.  Would using the normal flightaware website in an android browser be a sufficient substitute? I don't know. 
• Amazon Kindle -- Like ESPN, also just became available last month, once again way behind the iPhone version. 
• Pandora -- available, looks good
• SoundHound -- available though judging from reviews the Android version is inferior, for example doesn't hook into the music player (which is another topic altogether)
• WRAL  -- available, looks equivalent
• WUNC streaming radio -- not available, no indication it will be
• Weather Underground -- available
• ForeFlight -- available but with far less function than iPhone version.  The Android version has weather only, none of the flight planning or charting features.   Not sure how bad this is, since I usually take my wife's iPad with the full version of ForeFlight installed when I go flying. 

So the iPhone definitely has an advantage in apps, not only in the total number but in the ones I care about.   The question is, do I want a phone that is lacking some apps that I know I could have with an iPhone, assuming other factors were equal or balanced out?

Also the trend of apps coming out for Android long after iPhone (including some major ones like ESPN and Kindle) gives me pause.  How much longer would I have to wait for an app on Android if a new one came out that I would like to have?

The edge on apps definitely goes to the iPhone.  But that's just one (albeit major) factor, more to come on the others.