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TLDR for my answer: At this point, they are effectively the same. Apple will always have the edge on software and platform integration since they do everything first party.

Quick background on my, I serviced and managed a phone repair shop for 4 years and been in IT for well over 12 years. I work now as a desktop engineer / systems administrator. If you would have posed this question roughly 5 years ago, my hardline answer would have been an Android platformed phone. They tended to be cheaper to repair and more customizable from a GUI standpoint. All your majour PaaS options were easily integrated there where as Apple was lagging behind.

Apple products are also notoriously tedious to repair with part serialization making it impossible for 3rd party repair. Basically, if you got a repair done, while it didnt always directly void your warranty, other features would degrade or stop working as Apple did not recognize the new part (even if OEM) as authentic. They insisted on everything being first party and being able to say "IF you didnt do it here, youre SOL".

Android based products on the other hand (Samsung and Google mainly) used to be far easier to repair. Parts were more readily available; Google also used to be more customer friendly with a VERY lax warranty. I used to process NUMOUROUS claims where something was very obviously client damaged and Google would be quite alright as long as it maid them happy.

Nowadays, Google and Samsung are falling in line. They do the same serialized parts, "booby-trapped" phones, essentially making some parts extremely easy to damage during the repair process, and give shit to every 3rd party repair shop for existing.

From the software end, Apples wins, hands down. Everything you want to release on their platform has to be tested and approved by them. The software is also more easily administered as you have MUCH fewer hardware configurations to worry about; less QA for hardware and easier dev-ops. With the software having to work on ALL their devices, they are SO MUCH easier integrated together. You can so seamlessly go from your Macbook to your iPad and pick up where you left off.

Last big thing is security. None of your VPN / proxy bullshit, but in that Apple said FUCK YOU to the government on every occasion when approched by a 3 letter agency to implement back doors into their products. Everything else you have, Android, Windows, whatever, has ways for them to get in. Apple, to my knowledge, does not, or at least Apple prides themselves when they tell the government to fuck off.