JJ Husker

Apple has the best products hands down. 

I have an iPhone 7+ and leaning very heavily toward getting the Pixel XL 2 when that comes out. 

Hearing leaks from insiders who have been correct in the past that the next iPhones will be able to charge wireless BUT you have to buy a wireless charger through Apple and any other third party wireless charger that works with all android phones will not work with iPhones. 

With the Pixel, Google proved that with its pure android system is on point with iOS when it goes to reliability (Samsung, LG, HTC all suffer from lag and bloat ware) and its camera software is far ahead of Apples. I think iPhone pictures have that washout look when being compared with the Pixel. The only thinly I like with my iPhone is iMessage and that's it

"vertical integration" (I hope that's the right term) refers to Apple controlling the entire development stack. So they design the hardware, they design the software, they control the app ecosystem. In Android, you have sweet hardware innovation in various corners that must conform the the Android OS, which in turn must be exposed to the different vendors and remain neutral in a sense, and then apps get developed across different devices and flavors of the OS, and so on. So you might find yourself running into some apps being only for the iPhone, or working best on the iphone.