As a long-time Apple hater, it was a hard to decision to make the switch to iOS. I did it for a few personal reasons, but mostly because of its taking parental controls seriously. In order to keep me and my family safe, the switch was requisite.
Since its inception, iOS (the operating system that is on iPhones and iPads) has had parental controls available. You can block access to the browser, the installing of apps, and lots of other things. I use these parental controls for myself in order to keep myself safe. I will probably get into the details of exactly how I do this in a later post, but suffice it to say that my family and I are now completely safe when using the phones. My wife is the one who knows the PIN to keep this all in place.
Google/Android refuse to address issues of parental control, supposedly because it goes against the 'open' culture that they believe in. I guess that's fine. However, this refusal to deal with these things has lost a customer for life, or at least until they take it seriously. Sure, there are third-party solutions that work, yet these solutions are only one update to the OS away from breaking and being unusable. Also, the outside apps that solve this must block Google Now/Google Assistant, which makes the phone 'dumb.' If Google built parental controls into Google Now/Google Assistant the same way Apple does, I would switch back. I probably will never give my children an Android phone.
So I have turned in my membership card for the Apple-hate club. I still despise how much they charge for their products and I will NEVER buy a MacBook or an iMac (unless I win the lottery or something). I still loathe much of their philosophy in developing user experiences. But to keep my family safe, I have made the switch.