These appear contradictory. I know that my experience with Android was not exactly intuitive, and I'd been using a smartphone for several years (and a variety of PDAs before that.) I needed a bit of help to point out good apps to get to get started, an explanation for why there were two email apps, how to get notifications set up (as there is a default notification in settings, then separate ones in each apps preferences, rather than a central repository to set them up), learning that I didn't need a task killer after being told definitively that I needed one, etc. You guys all remember this.
I do think that is the one advantage of the iPhone - compared with Android, I think it's easier for a new user to pick up and use well from the very start. That said, after about two days, I'd never go to an iPhone (as it is now, or even will be in a couple of weeks, though that battery life sounds great...) from Android.