Re: I prefer the Bose QC
The QCs do all of those things, to be fair. The thing I really like about the Sonys is the clever touchpad on the side, letting you temporarily "un-mute" the world, skip tracks, pause and a bunch of other nifty things. Plus it has real cancellation profiles and decent EQ, with Bose and their godawful app are sorely lacking.
If the MDR-1000Xs had been out when I got my QC35s I'd probably have gone for them instead.