Android because I like to customize my things... I'm not a bot that needs to have everything done for me.
I own an Android phone, but outside of my rather narrow use case, I think iPhones are a better phone. Personally, I need to be able to tinker with my phone and develop apps for it (and I don't know Swift), so I need to have an Android. But at this point with phones, it comes down to the software experience (since the hardware is pretty much the same). Honestly, it's just embarrassing at this point how badly supported Android phones are. The best that Android can do is Google themselves, who provide 2-3 years of software updates, whereas Apple provides over five years worth of feature updates let alone security ones, which go for even longer. Plus their phones are free of bloatware (*cough* samsung and their duplicated apps *cough*), don't have garish and resource-intensive skins that honestly ruin an otherwise good phone (*cough* samsung *cough* huawei *cough* xiaomi *cough*). Plus they have nowhere near the level of integration Apple has between its services (the number of times the Your Phone app stops working on my pc...). Then there's the whole privacy concerns about Google as well. Yes, I really enjoy not being able to use my front camera in a few years when the mechanism inevitably wears out or breaks... I never really got the whole obsessions with notches or notchless designs, but I guess that's probably because I don't really consume media on my phone, so I don't need it to have as much screen as possible.
For me android is the way to go. I find apple way to expensive, I don't get how America is the top consumer on Apple when 50% of them can't afford a sudden 400 dollar expense when their car breaks for example. But a 1100 phone is lets gooooo I also think that iphones are built to break, my entire family pretty much has iphones and they replace it yearly because of some issue with it. Where the back or front panels break, or something else just fucks up. I have the Samsung galaxy s6 and after 5 years now it's starting to slow massively to the point where I am thinking about replacing it. The breaking is also very much not desired in my line of work, I work outside in the rain and mud and from what I can tell the few who have iphones in our group of workers they all break on the job, whilst in their pocket. It's a common occurrence where you see someone pull their iphone out of their pocket and see them look up at the sky with questions as to why the phone was able to break inside of their pocket. I must admit, iphones are snappy as fuck. Well maintained ones seem to run like the day you unboxed them, where as the ones that are unmaintained and are clustered with random apps and files feel slow. But are still sort of snappy. From my perspective it's just that Apple seems to work better in office environments and android devices seem to survive better in rougher work environments. None can top the CAT PHONE BABY LETS GOO WATER AND DUST PROOF? YOOO CAN BE RUN OVER BY A FORKLIFT WITH A FULL LOAD ON THE FRONT WITHOUT BREAKING? YOO (Happend to my brothers cat phone legit)
For me, it's perfect because I rarely, if ever, use the front facing camera. The risk of it breaking was something I was willing to take, and so far, it's been working completely fine ever since I bought it last september. Of course, having the motorized camera means sacrificing things such as wireless charging and waterproofness, but I've never been a big fan of wireless charging in the first place (Plus idrk need it because the 7 Pro charges insanely fast) and havent had many instances, if any, where ive had to use my phone while being wet
I’ve dropped my iPhone countless times and it still hasn’t broken, I had a Samsung tablet a few years ago whose screen LITERALLY BURNED because it overheat so badly
Honestly i dont like samsung, i prefer other android brands like motorola. Samsung is like its own separate thing with android in it. I'm not a fan of their durability at all.