Ask HN: What do you do on an Android phone that cannot be done on an iPhone?

Custom keyboards - on iPhone, long-pressing the mic button in Gboard has to run as a separate app instead of integrating directly into the keyboard. Also on iPhone "secure" screens (that use logins and passwords) never yield to 3rd party keyboards; instead they always revert back to the iPhone keyboard.

Browser plugins - as you pointed out, browsers on iPhone are not allowed to run plugins, so no ad blockers in the traditional sense - you can install a system-wide ad-block engine.

iOS has significant restrictions in the realm of Bitcoin wallets compared to Android.

Primarily the custom launchers. But to be honest, the novelty of that is quickly waning with all these "Hey, how'd you like Home Depot?" notifications that I can't turn off without crippling the android experience. NOYB, that's how I liked it. I'm probably going to be in the market for an iPhone next time around.

I thought Safari had the best power to battery consumption ratio of all the browsers. I certainly notice it on desktop where I switched to Safari last year, but that's pretty massive on mobile.

Safari seems to take this seriously instead of the race to the bottom on performance and resource consumption. I also like features like how Safari extensions are now 1st class apps and its declarative content blocker (1Blocker X being best in class imo).

What makes Safari so bad in your eyes?

Basically if your personality is such that you like to adapt your environment to suit YOU, you'll probably hate iOS and Android is the way to go.

If on the other hand don't mind adapting your workflow to someone else's conception of design which many people find ok iOS will suit you.

Technologically, there's very little difference between top of the line Android and iPhone though you do get more interesting featuretrade-offs to choose from in Android (eg. Samsung Note 9 has a great stylus, Huawei P30 has by miles the best camera in any phone, Pixel is stock OS etc) - which again kind of links to personality.