I've used both Android and iOS pretty extensively over the years. I'm currently on iOS, but just picked up a Pixel 4a for app testing. It's a fine device for $3

I've used both Android and iOS pretty extensively over the years. I'm currently on iOS, but just picked up a Pixel 4a for app testing. It's a fine device for $350. IMO, phones have mostly been commoditized. Not necessarily in pricing (see flagships), but in features. They run the same few apps people want to run and work fine. Where iOS I think shines is in the total ecosystem. AirPods and Apple Watch integration comes to mind, though some Android specific alternatives are out now. Then there's iOS and macOS integration. Things like copy and paste between devices just works as expected. I'm not going to argue about Apple and absolute privacy, but if you look at relative privacy between Apple and Google, Apple also comes out ahead. But for most, for just a phone, at the end of the day it doesn't really matter.