When the first iPhone came out in 2007, Apple’s iOS came with a bundle of Google applications, e.g., Maps and YouTube, to name the two popular ones. As Google moved from a Blackberry-killer Android design to an iPhone-like (and killer) design, Apple has slowly weed out any trace of Google’s technology from the iPhone. Apple’s removal of Maps, unbundling of YouTube app, introduction of Siri (to triage search, among other things) and addition of default search engines like DuckDuckGo, are all part of the de-Googlelization of iOS.

Normally, iOS users are the ones left out when Apple makes decisions on which ones to remove and retain. However, in the case of Google’s services (and Microsoft and Amazon, for that matter), iOS users are often not left out (though at times we have to be patient). Amazon, Microsoft and Google features that are available on Windows Phone and Android, respectively, are often made available on iOS via third-party apps. The same cannot be said of Apple’s features.

Within a span of 6 months, Microsoft released Office for iPad and Amazon released Prime Music for iOS. At WWDC, Apple released tons of new features exclusively for OS X and iOS users — nothing for Windows Phone users, nor Amazon’s Fire devices, and definitely nothing for Android users. At this week’s Google I/O, we, iOS users, will be watching the keynote closely to find out what we will get when Google releases their next-generation Android features.

Yes, we get practically get the best of all platforms, best of all worlds. Why bother to shift, right?