I bought the third original Apple Macintosh 128K sold in Seattle in 1984 to write my first book on. I sas going to go with an IBM PC and Micrsoft Word, but when a friend dragged me to an Apple store to see the new Mac and I saw what it could do I changed my mind.
Trivia for the day--- Did you know that the first mold for the back of the origingl Mac case had the signatures of everyone at Apple who worked on the Mac engraved in the mold surface? So when you open up the computer, the inside of the case has all these raised signatures on it, including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Mine has them, but I don't know how long they continued to use this mold..
My employer (Boeing) was anbivelent at first about what kind of desktop computers people had. Some of us had Macs, some had PCs. But eventually, as the company began to do more with its intranet, it was obvious it woudl have to standardize. Not surprisingly, it standardized on PC.
But we have stayed with Apple at home and would not switch for anything. Besides the operating system being more intuitive and the apps more relevant (in my opinion), we have all our devices on the same account. So the desk Mac, my wife's iPhone (I have a company international Blackberry), my two iPads, and her iPad Mini all get the same things. So when she puts an entry into her calendar it immediately appears in all our devices. And if I get an app it appears on all our devices except the desktop Mac, although it gets loaded to the desktop's iTunes.
Now I'm sure the Google devices can do the same thing. And the people I know who have Google-powered Android phones are very happy with them.
I have noticed that the people I meet who are in a creative business--- film, video, graphics, writing, etc.--- tend to use Apple gear. The number-crunchers, finance folks, etc. tend to prefer Android and Windows-powered gear. There are a lot of people here at Boeing. for example, who have company-issued Blackberry phones (the company standard) but who also carry their own iPhone.
Boeing actually carried out a test with iPhones, issuing them to a specific organization to try out. What they found was that while almsot all the users greatly favored the iPhone, Blackberry still has the best network security of all of them. And in this industry, this is very important. So we've stayed with Blackberry.
But as far as Apple vs Android, it's probably six of one, half dozen of the other. They both have their proponents with good reasons for their preferences.