The "iPhones are easier to use" myth is just that, a myth. Phones all pretty much work the same these days. A while back (over a year ago now, maybe two, three?) I was in a doctor's waiting room when an older woman came out and discovered that her iPhone battery had died. She needed to call her daughter to come and pick her up. She asked if she could use my phone. I said sure, unlocked it and handed it to her. Her eyes went wide seeing it was an Android phone and said she couldn't use it, it was too complicated.
I smiled and asked her if she saw the phone icon on the bottom left. She said yes. I said, "tap it." She did. I told her to enter her daughter's phone number. She did. I said hit the phone icon on the bottom left again to dial. She did. Her daughter answered and she finished the call. I told her how to hang up. She handed back the phone and said, "That wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be." I then showed her how the apps worked and she said, "That's just like on my iPhone!" I then told her how much I'd paid for the phone and a year's service and she had to sit down from the shock. She was paying more per month than I'd paid for the phone and a year's service.
These days a phone is a phone, a computer is a computer, and a tablet is a tablet. You point, swipe, tap, click and they all pretty much work the same. Between Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, pretty much everything syncs on everything Windows and Android these days. I'll enter an appointment in my Android Phone's calendar and it's on my computer, Fire tablets, and Chromebook also. My computer reminded me the other day that I'd told a friend I'd send him an email after reading a story he'd written. Things are almost getting too smart.
Apple lives in their own little secluded world where no one else can get in. If you're prefer being trapped in that system, then fine. But, you don't have to be trapped in there. You have options. Lots of options. There's very little, maybe nothing, that Apple does that you can't do outside the Apple ecosystem just about as easily and in some cases more easily.
Any photo or video I take on my phone is saved to Amazon's cloud, Microsoft's cloud, and Google's cloud. Sometimes the uploads occur so fast that if I don't like a photo and go to delete it, it's already been uploaded and saved to the clouds. That kind of a triple redundancy is pretty neat.
If you want an Apple product, then fine. No problem. But don't think an Apple product is vastly easier to use, or better these days. It's just not true most of the time.
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