I just got done running an AOSP rom on my One S, and I have to say, I love stock Jelly Bean. The fluidity of Jelly Bean absolutely trumps that of ICS. Project Butter is evident in everything you do. Going back to ICS, you really notice things like how much lag there is from time to time, or how many dropped frames there are. But one thing that just drew me right back to Sense, was the widget selection. In my opinion, Sense has the best widgets, hands down, of any other Android skin. TouchWiz has few good ones, as does Motorola, but they just don't compare to how polished the widgets with Sense are. Not to mention the sheer quantity of widgets as well. There are 5 pages alone just for clocks. That's right, clocks.
I think this is one of the major things holding Android back in it's stock form. Finally in Jelly Bean we have the smoothness that we've longed for since the release of Android. But now we need polished, functional widgets to go along with it. We already know that iOS is much more "Boring" and "Stale" than Android, one of the key features being the lack of widgets, but just because Android has them, doesn't mean their nice. This is why I think Jelly Bean, along with Sense+, will be the most functional operating system in mobile.
What do you guys think? Do widgets matter to you? Or am I alone here? Do you love the AOSP widgets? Let me know!
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