As someone who has used both, let me give my relative observations of each platform:
1. Android is better for interoperability and cross-communication between different standards of information exchange (since it works on almost any device), while iOS has a more systematized and unified approach
2. In terms of package managers, iOS is definitively better. All iOS apps are self-contained; this (both in theory and in practice) makes it easier for you to move the entire application onto a device or devices. Android (being Linux-based) is very much designed around a modular ecosystem, so you typically need to download the core elements and then download subsequent data files from the Play Store. This has the effect of making apps smaller, but also less manageable, since you don't download the entire package at once.
3. In terms of security, the combination of Apple's manual inspection system and walled-garden approach means outright spyware is (supposed to be) harder to get onto the App Store. However, if Apple personally has decided that an app doesn't deserve to be on their platform, they have a monopoly on the their market and can choose to deny access at any time, whereas on Android sideloading (or the act of installing apps not from an "authorized" source) is considerably easier (there is literally an option to enable sideloading in all versions of Android, though you have to basically escalate privileges to do this, as sideloading requires root-level esque access; I say "root-level esque", because you don't need to jailbreak Android to enable sideloading). You can sideload apps on iOS, but this requires A) the right version of iOS installed (one where there are still vulnerabilities that can be exploited to gain root access to the file system (as jailbreaking in iOS also requires root access, but since this is achieved by way of directly exploiting bugs, it has the potential to be more dangerous) and B) have the right exploit for your version of the OS. If an exploit hasn't been released yet or can't be done, sucks to suck.
4. iOS is hampered by the fact that you need a Mac in order to run XCode (or Swift, in recent versions), thus meaning that you need to shell out at least a grand just to get a workable environment to exploit the OS going (though once an exploit is actually found, any OS compatible with the exploit will do), whereas Android can have code run on it from any source
5. In terms of privacy, Apple is supposed to be better as you pay obscene amounts of money outright for the iPhone, whereas since Android is so cheap, you usually "subsidize" your usage of the phone with all the Google services you are logging into. Also, Google.
6. In terms of longevity, this is a two-way street: iPhones "last longer" because Apple provides security updates and general system upgrades for more generations of their devices (the iPhone 4S, which was released back in 2011, was getting updates as recently as 3 years ago--that's a REALLY long time in technology years), but Apple's use of proprietary security blobs means you can't go back and downgrade the OS if you so choose. Once you upgrade your device and Apple discontinues the blob authorizing that version of the OS, that's it, yer done. On the flip side, Android is notorious for fragmentation. Since system updates happen at the vendor level, you will be lucky if you get even a single system update for the entire duration of your device's lifespan and this problems persists to this day. NO ONE who uses Android talks about this or maybe it's just such an "assumed" issue, it's not worth rehashing for the upteenth time.
I've been using iPhone for the better part of a decade and I really like it, but honestly, neither Android nor iPhone are "ideal". They are both lacking in certain features and use cases that make for the perfect mobile operating system. The worst part is, "officially", you never actually OWN either device you paid for, you just have license to use it.
I have always preferred Android as it is the more consumer and programmer friendly platform... many Apple fans will argue about the hardware being far better, the OS being far better and well the price is higher so much obviously reflect the quality of the products... so iOS the way it is is similar to the window's based OS of the phones and windows 8. x and 10, and yes while iOS was out before in one form or another windows chose to design their newer phone OS' and windows 8. x and 10 in the style of Apple's iOS by going for a more "App" style feel
Price doesn't justify or explain quality, contrary to common belief that higher the price indicates better quality and more popular and better products, this is where people do not realise that when a company like Apple, Intel and such who get above a certain size in both worth and size, it isn't uncommon for a company to set prices up higher than reasonable and fob off consumers with BS where the quality etc is worth it and that manufacturing said products is too costly to sell at a lesser price... this is pretty much BS as you end up mainly paying for the name... or brand of the items you buy... with tech becoming smaller and more cheap to manufacture these excuses dont fit the price they charge... hardware in a samsung s10 and Apple's iPhone of say similar release period or specs are literally using exactly the same hardware, Apple iPhone's have the bulk of hardware manufactured by Samsung and yes while Apple have dominated the market with battery life being more superior to that of the then current tech of phone batteries, the now current generation of tech means there isn't much of a gap if any at all... but the hardware is still the same used in android phones as it is in iPhone's
the difference though between Apple and Android which tbh is the biggest difference overall... Android is free to develop for, meaning you get a lot of budding programmers and students able to use the platform to develop apps which can revolutionise some or all of people's lives via their app or just make things easier or fun for others but with the freedom and free to use the SDK it makes a huge difference for those people to put content on our phones which can help in so many ways much of it for free and much of it for them to improve on... Apple however isn't free to develop for, you have to (from what i was informed about by a developer making apps) purchase the rights to use the SDK then it needs to conform to certain rules which might i add are a lot, plus you have to (recalling what they mentioned) purchase the right to put on the Apple store... so much of the new developers won't be able to create for Apple unless they have funds upfront to purchase the right to create for iPhone's and even then the restrictions are intense too
Android, definitely. The huge amount of choice and ease you can do things with along with how similar it works to the Windows system and whether you're a developer or beginner you can easily get your phone/tablet to do whatever you want. I love how unrestricted it is.
It's a trend. Everyone has one, so everyone wants one. Apple marketing makes it look like a trendy accessory every people who are "in" must have, and they put it at a high price so it also becomes a luxury product people buy to show off and brag about having the money to buy it.
I like iPhone's UI better--quite significantly better--but, I overall prefer Android, as it's significantly more adaptable and not as tyrannical: much more open. Really don't like how Apple mandates that you only use their stuff and only buy from their company and won't allow any 3rd party developer tools or apps; coming out with new charging cables with each generation, etc, etc. Bunch of corporate bullshit.
I have an Android but apple is better. For now. I said Apple simply because of the security and also because when you buy an apple phone you don't have to go looking for a bunch of stuff that you need default wise. For example a pic gallery. On a Android you got like 3 different type of gallery to choose from, 1 doesn't do cropping and the other you got to pay monthly🤨. Where as apple you got 1 that's free and has all the features you need, now imagine that with almost every app on Android. I got this phone because its 1 of the toughest phones on the market and it's not fragile like iPhone. I got an Android. I have feeling iPhone is going to worse down the line
Android by design and by principle. I'm not keen on paying up for a more restricted OS and touting new features that already was with your rival for over a year. Plus I don't own any apple product besides a 3rd gen Nano from 2006, so I see even less reason for switching.
I really dig my Galaxy S9+. IOS is really good if you are willing to sell your soul and use it exclusively for everything, but android has better 3rd party support, so you get at least some freedom.
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