A few years ago I had a Google Nexus 4 phone. An absolutely outstanding bit of kit but about 3 years after it was released Apple released the spec to the new iPhone. Much fanfare and media coverage about how new and ground breaking the new one was!
The specs only just managed to match those of my old Nexus 4!! Even when shown that their new, expensive, phone didn't have particularly ground breaking technology they still couldn't see how they were being ripped off!
And yet the new Samsung Galaxy whatever that’s on its way in the next few weeks is inferior to 2019’s iPhone 11 Pro, never mind the 12 Pro.
I put up with Android phones for about four years at work and they’re so poor that I switched to iPhones and have never looked back. A lot of what Bill
Centaur says above is pretty accurate. However, the Android phones slow down over a relatively short space of time whereas the iPhone tends to maintain the same performance speeds. The thing that really pissed me off with Android, particularly Samsung, was that they have a tendency to open and run apps in the background, usually Google maps and Google play store. My HTC wasn’t as bad but bad enough to be irritating.
It mainly boils down to your preference of operating system and how much money you’re prepared to spend. We’re so far into the Apple ecosystem that it would make no sense whatsoever to change. Besides, I wouldn’t want to.
Oh, and Apple doesn’t harvest all your data and flog it like what Google does.