exactly. apple and android both have their respective upsides and downsides. android has some stuff apple doesn't have, and vice versa. personally, I dislike apple-written operating systems (namely iOS, iPadOS, and WatchOS) more than others because they’re not open-source, and they don’t support loading apps from files. macOS does support .dmg installation along with app store installation, but still, I prefer Linux or other Unix-kernel based operating systems. this all to say that I don’t dislike apple, in fact I own several apple products. there are just some issues I have with them.
Maybe we should consider that possibly… this is just a wild guess… but there may be a slim sliver of a chance that iPhones are better than Androids in some ways. And Androids are better than iPhones in some ways. And Apple makes features that Androids don’t have. I’m really tired of the crazy arguments we always have, not just online but in person. Every argument about Apple versus Android always devolves into the Android guy screaming the top 5 things about Android and the worst 5 things about Apple, and the Apple guy doing the same but reversed.
The fact is… without competition, either platform would be garbage. They each need the other one (and the people saying the other one is better!) to get better themselves. So I’m going to stop saying one is better than the other. I like iOS better because it has better aesthetics (which is a personal opinion), I’m used to it, and I’m in the ecosystem. Some may like Android better. So be it.
Stop trying to get people to change their minds, though. They won’t.