Never!

Just how obnoxious do Android commercials need to get before I ponder switching to iOS?  

I would guess that they'd have to go really far over the edge for that to happen.  But then again, you're an Android fanboy, so you're biased.

Well, there's part of the problem.  Phones are a very personal thing, and the selection of your phone can be a deeply profound matter for people.  Or they'll just buy what's popular.  

Sure, there are "Windows Phones" out there, but realistically, in the world of Smartphones, you have two choices.  Apple's iOS, and Google's Android.  They both have their merits as well as intensely loyal fanbases.  Android has much more variability in the available phones, the top tier of which have had the best hardware for at least the last three years, and has a more open environment for developing apps.  Apple's iPhone has a level of brand recognition that Android can only dream of (how many of you refer to any smartphone as an iPhone, regardless of manufacturer...same with any tablet computer being referred to as a iPad?) and is, in fact, the single best-selling smartphone on the market.  

More importantly, no Android user worth his or her salt would even contemplate switching over to an iPhone, nor would an iPhone user "reduce" themselves to an Android device.  It's not that one is actually demonstrably superior to the other, it's just how the world works.  

That said, we're in the time of year when we get inundated in commercials all about stuff we're supposed to buy people for Christmas.  Usually cars, but we do get the occasional phone ad mixed in there for good measure.  Every phone manufacturer runs commercials for their devices, but only recently have I noticed the Android operating system itself is running commercials, ostensibly advertising a vast number of devices all at once in an attempt to gain market share from iOS users (even though currently somewhere around 80% of Smartphones run Android).  This would be all well and good (especially since I rarely watch commercials, but darn those live hockey games), if the commercials weren't horrible.  

They have two that I'm aware of.  The First is a series of short videos of people doing things that may or may not be related to using a phone set to the tune of Party Hard by Andrew W.K..  It's mostly monotone screaming.  The Next is a bizarrely animated (Reminiscent of a Terrance and Phillip Short) drawing of people in a Winnebago paying a highway toll with Tag Team's "Whoomp! There It Is" playing.  Also awful.  I'm not sure how much worse of a commercial it would take to get me to switch away from Android as a mobile operating system, but they're certainly doing their best.