Smugness? Just cause I don't like touchwiz doesn't mean other people won't. My wife does. As I said earlier, "to each their own". Isn't that the opposite of smugness?
To be fair, I didn't quote you with that post. I was more referring to stuff like Drummer's absurd rants. Sorry if you got lumped in with that.
FYI, you can replace your app drawer if you don't like it in stock. You can replace almsot anything really (dialer, messaging, etc). Thats why I like pure Android best. You don't have to take out and then put in, you can just put in what you want.
Right, and the same is true of Touchwiz, minus the "you don't have to take out" part in a few cases. But is that really what this all boils down to? Pure Android is the holy grail because it saves you the 45 seconds of disabling the default email and calendar apps? And since you never use your app drawer, you probably don't even need to spend that 45 seconds actually disabling them. Even if you did, with Touchwiz's super convenient app drawer that works as well with 300 apps as it does with 30, you'd probably never even notice them if you left them.
Is it the 7mb of storage space those unremovable apps take up on a phone that can hold a microSD card with 64gb of extra storage that's a dealbreaker?
Oh, and I go to my app drawer like once a week. Folders rock.
On stock Android, I don't either. That thing is a POS and super inconvenient. There are some 3rd party ones that get closer to the Touchwiz one, but none that are quite as convenient as it.
Don't get me wrong. It's really cool that pure Android can use google now to see your plane ticket confirmation in your gmail account and automatically provide you with a notice that it's time leave for the airport with navigation directions in google maps already ready to go for you. The thing is, my touchwiz'd Galaxy S3 does the exact same thing, and all it took was 2 minutes to download a couple of apps almost two years
The bottom line is that sure, stock Android is a little snappier and saves you a few minutes one time spent disabling some bloatware and downloading some of the google apps, but I'm not really seeing the huge differences that make non-pure Android the equivalent of running iOS as some like Drummer have alluded to. I really think that guys like him and Soulfly have only used pure Android phones in the last few years and think that the stuff they're doing is unique to their pure Android phones.
I'm open to the idea that there is some major difference but looking at a pure Android device and a Touchwiz'd device side by side I'm just not seeing anything the former can do that the latter can't, except that the latter supports removable batteries and micro SD cards which make a FAR bigger difference in my daily usage. Like I said, sure if you fall behind on a few updates you lose out on some behind the scenes stuff that makes it a little snappier, but anything related to any app or feature of the phone comes to everything else in the form of an app update usually within a matter of days. Is being able to use Hangouts for SMS after the 4.4 update really a big deal when the update to the Hangouts app itself does the same thing and is available for 4.3? Are improvements to google now in a new version of the OS a big deal when those same improvements come to the google now app on the play store a couple days later?
ok. I have only owned android phones. Of all the phones and tablets I owned this phone is better than my Nexus 7. Playing roms and everything on here. Just because I don't choose to go all inerd doesn't mean I don't know how or not care about android.. 
