The “Scrolling Experience”

Talk to an Android user who switched from Android and you may find that they miss an unlikely feature from iOS: the overall scrolling experience. We’re not just talking about performance and screen refresh rates. Many anecdotal reports indicate that there’s just something special about how scrolling on iOS works.

One Android user said that the “physics” of scrolling and navigating iOS are a lot nicer than Android. That largely comes down to the attention-to-detail Apple puts into its system — take the individual physics of text bubbles in iMessage, for example. Of course, not everyone likes the way navigation works on iOS. But those who do, really miss it.