Had to get a new phone recently and it made me realize how loyal people are to one side lol. So which is it for you?

I’m for team Android!

This is always an interesting one, lots of die hard fans in both camps.

I’v been iPhone for a long time now. Prefer the security/locked down approach of it. Also works seamlessly with all the other Apple devices we have e.g phones we take of family trips appear on the kids iPads etc and they like that. Also like the parental controls, especially since iOS27 where this has improved greatly.

I’m firmly on team Android, mostly because of how much Samsung DeX has changed the way I work. My phone isn’t just a phone anymore; it’s my work laptop, my tablet, my ereader, and even a backup desktop at home. Being able to dock it into a lapdock or a monitor and instantly have a full desktop environment saves me from buying an actual laptop, which pretty much keeps me locked into Samsung’s ecosystem in a good way.

Google finally released Android Desktop as a competitor, and it’s promising, but it definitely needs more time to cook. Meanwhile, Apple still doesn’t have any real answer to this kind of workflow. I like a lot of Apple’s ecosystem, but this is a huge missing piece for me. If I switched, I’d need to buy an iPhone, an iPad, and a laptop just to replace what my single Android device already does.

At home, I keep a little 10" portable screen that I use as an e-reader with DeX, so my phone doubles as my tablet and reading device too. A folding phone could replace that screen entirely and give me the tablet experience built in, but at $2,000 compared to a $100 portable display… yeah, not quite worth it yet.

The new Apple Fold looks nice and definitely has some clever Apple touches, but even that wouldn’t solve the biggest gap for me; there’s still no way to use an iPhone as a laptop or desktop. For my workflow, that’s the dealbreaker.

I’ve tried an iPhone briefly but I didn’t like it. I don’t understand the hype for Apple. I’ve always been a lover of Android. I remember having to use Mac computers in school and I hated it. 😛

Option 3: Graphene OS!

I love Android with the whole of my heart. The flexibility, customization, and affordability are what makes it my top choice. iPhones are expensive and they have bad batteries.

I'm mostly on team Android for my personal daily driver too, though building cross-platform Flutter apps forces me to test on both ecosystems constantly. What keeps me favoring Android is the freedom to sideload my own experimental APK builds right from my computer without jumping through provisioning hoops, plus having real file-system access.

I have to give iPhones credit for how smoothly they integrate with macOS and how long Apple supports older hardware, so I respect both sides.