[teho]

> Plus, apparently, they don't have per app notifications, and some are saying that push notifications can be unreliable.

iOS does have per application notification settings. Also apps have to ask permissions to even send them. You can also change how each app's notifications behave. It's also possible to group all notifications from an app or a group of apps to be shown at certain time of a day, all at once. I don't think there's any reliability issues.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/11/01/how-to-manage-not...

The focus modes expand this so that you have even more power to control how notifications work at certain time of day (or location etc). Focus modes also apply to all your Apple devices at once.

> iOS apps also seem to often cost a few bucks, despite free equivalents existing for Android. Perhaps because they are more expensive to make, or because they can't rely on a data collection business model, whatever the case pretty much everything seems more expensive.

This has a benefit that there are more high quality apps on iOS than on Android and the apps aren't abandoned as often.