The wife and I started with the Iphone (after she had the motorola razor flip phone which still is a sharp looking phone).
I was ok with it for the most part. I did NOT like that you had to use Itunes program to move stuff into or out of your phone even if you wanted a simple ring tone from zedge. I also did not like when you would rip cds through Itunes although you would see the name and artists, if you have to export them later you found out they changed everything to jiberish...it still worked but if you looked in some folders there would not be names per say but just random letters.
I did not like at the time that you could not change the battery yourself without voiding warranty. Did not like that you did not have a Micro SD slot. To this day if a phone does not have a micro SD Card option I will not even entertain buying it.
I did LIKE that apple was not beholden to any other company nor any specific carrier so when they had an IOS Update you did not have to wait various times depending on what phone brand you had and what carrier you had. However with that said if they screwed up an update, it was for all phones due to not having others having a chance to work some of the bugs out.
We switched to android and I have not looked back since. Wife hated it immediately so she went back to iphone and has not looked back. This was when we first had the iphone 4 and then switched to the samsung galaxy three so it has been some time. Every since that point I have went with the Note series as they tend to have some better specs.
Although samsung did a couple of things I hated, like taking out the ability to easily open the back and replace a battery (although I don't know why as I never had to replace one) and taking away the headphone jack as I just hate blue tooth head phones. But they still have the SD Card and I am a tad ocd when it comes to backing up stuff. I have music backed up on multiple SD cards and a couple of computer hard drives.
I like how android system can let you easily move files from one phone to another, from a computer to your phone or the reverse without having to go through a proprietary program like Itunes.
I love that android gives you so many options to change this or that. Multiple themes, backgrounds, icons and is so customizable which is something I love to noodle around with when I am bored.
I did not care for the cameras at one time on samsung but I LOVE the one I have now. It is pretty amazing to me. I currently have the Note 20 Ultra 5G and Samsung really has upped their game when it comes to phones.
Now I hate messing with Iphones. Sometimes the wife asks me to do something on her phone or her mother's phone when there is a problem and I hate messing with them. Something as simple as a back button missing is just a pain in the butt to me.
I also just shake my head when Apple is showing off their newest phone or computer line and the major update or reason to buy it is because it comes in a different color or variety of colors. Really? That is your major selling point? And sadly it works. I have seen people that have to go out and buy an iphone because it is red, even if it means paying for an inferior product. I don't know you would just buy the better phone and just put a red case on it.
As far as privacy goes...If you think Iphone vs Android is that big of a difference...I got some ocean front property to sell you here in WV. They both have issues...almost anything with a sim card has issues. You can get some non andorid and IOS phones out there that are geared toward privacy that will have different OS like Cryptodata. There are however a niche market so the aftermarket products and app stores will be limited.
In the end if you like one phone system over the other...make yourself happy and screw what any other person says. You, hopefully, are not buying phone to make others happy.
