You highlight one of my greatest frustrations with android. I have an android phone, droid x2, that is about a year old. I can't get 4.0 on it!
"I guess I just fail to see how "it's more intuitive" is anything more than "I'm used to it" these days."
If a 2 year old can use iOS easily, and not use Android, then it is much more than "I'm used to it". Right? Regardless of whether I am a two year old, that is strong evidence that it is more intuitive.
"Even multitasking is more intuitive in Android."
Not on my droid x2. I have no idea wtf it's doing. When I hold down the home button it shows me about 5 apps. It thinks it is showing me the most recently used, but I have no idea how it determines that. It usually shows me the "Home" "app" which apparently gets used often. All this "app" does is take me to the home screen. The next app it always shows me is the google currents app. Apparently every time it fetches more content in the background it counts that as "recently used".
I can go on and on and on like this.
"I mean this in a humorous sense, but are you a 2 year old? And even then, what user experiences vary so much across them that there's a discernable difference?"
Tons, but I don't feel like taking the time to type them out. I'll give you two quick examples. I have a 4 year old and a 2 year old. The 4 year old had an iPad when she was 2 as well so I've watched two kids use iPads and one of them use android. They learn by pushing buttons/icons and remembering what happens. My android phone is sleeping, how do they wake it up? There are 4 buttons instead of 1, that confuses a two year old for a while. eventually they can remember which one is which, but it takes a while. So that's one thing. Now once they get the screen on and they want to unlock it, there are two sliders instead of 1. The second slider turns the sound off and on. That's the second thing. Ok, I'll add one more, widgets. When you look at an iOS screen there are only icons for apps or folders so all you can really do are open apps or open folders which shows you apps. On android you don't know what you're looking at or what will happen when you click it. Maybe it will call the person in the picture, maybe it's a text box to enter a search, maybe it doesn't do anything and is just some informational widget, and maybe it's an app and will open an app. There's another.
Ok, one more. Many apps, even ones for kids, depend on the back button. This confuses the hell out of a 2 year old, yet my two year old has no problem figuring out how to navigate around the coloring apps on iOS which have buttons in the app for navigation.