[haydn3]

>Price

>Less 'idiot-focused' UX

>Better company running it

>Better apps/less locked down 'app store'

>More freedom/choice in phone companies and customisation

>About the same locked-down OS

There's really no other choice

[KaiserPro]

price, yes.

UX, no. Android, well material design is just a horror to use. especially if you have any visual impairment.

Company, its a matter of taste.

App store is a double edged sword. There is more malware on google apps store, but more freedom.

More competition is normally good.

I'm in two minds on this. I loved the nokia n900, it was full linux, but with decent support and GUI. That obviously fied a death, mostly due to android.

I amd frustrated that I have to learn swift if I want to write stuff for IOS. I really can't be arsed. On the flip side, iOS being locked down so much means that apps are less able to steal my stuff.

I think its much more nuanced than that, really.

[wtmt]

>Better company running it

Nope, I disagree. Google is certainly not a better company than Apple when it comes to data collection, making it confusing (and sometimes impossible) to prevent data collection, and profiling user behavior to target them for ads.

[lern_too_spel]

Nonsense. It is impossible to prevent Apple from knowing every app you install on your phone, and you can't even develop for your own phone without deanonymizing yourself with payment info. Any app that requests location also causes that location to be sent to Apple, and there is no way to turn that off. On even Google-flavored Androids, you get to choose what information gets sent to Google, and sending location info to Google for every location request is opt in instead of impossible to disable (as on iOS) or merely opt out.

To make the point really obvious, even Google-flavored Android devices are perfectly usable without a Google account (install apps, etc.). iOS is unusable without an Apple ID.