Apple is the superior product if you aren't some pompous wanna-be techie. If you simply want a phone that works, has an extremely user-friendly interface, connects to your other devices, file sharing, etc., Apple is the way to go.
I've never called my phone my "iPhone™" instead of "my phone". So,
@Matt, sorry, but not all Apple fans are like that.
Ok, so now let's get serious. If someone someone were able to put iOS on a Samsung, I would get that in a heartbeat. I hate the iPhone. The quality of Apple products used to be far
far superiour to anything the competition could churn out, but the last two iterations of iphone that I've owned have been awful. I've had a few hardware problems with my current iphone, and I had a REAL bad one with my last one. Everyone did, to the point that Apple fixed the phones for free.
But the software is better on Apple products. I stand by what I said earlier about pompous wanna-be techies. If you want to do all kinds of "cool" techie crap on your phone, yeah, go Android. But for those of us without as much free time, that just want a product that is easy to use and works, iOS is the better operating system. Same with computers. OSX is a far better operating system than Windows,
unless you want to hack stuff. But if you want it to work, not crash, and not ask you 10000x if it's ok if a basic function occurs, then OSX is the way to go.
Non-phone Apple products are more reliable than the competition, they are easier to use, the end. I don't code, I don't hack, I don't download 100s of apps, so I use Apple. The fact that I can start a paper on my iMac, then finish it on my MacBook or my iPad is incredibly convenient. The fact that I can start reading an article on my iPad and finish it on my MacBook is also convenient. I understand that you can probably do that now with other operating systems, but as far as I know (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this), iOS/OSX was the first to do this.
But the phone hardware on Apple phones has gone downhill. I also hate that new iPhones come out every 4 months. I take care of my stuff, and Apple products last a long time, so I've no time for silly things like upgrading my phone every year. It's absurd.