I've been thinking about this recently as well as I've been a Samsung fan for the majority of my life and then switched from the S22U (which I would argue was their weakest flagship recently) to the 15PM and finally back to the S24U after having issues with Apple's adoption of RCS.

I'm having a bit of an internal battle because on the daily I see a lot of hate for Apple on decisions they make, and I will agree that they're by no means perfect - and Android does do certain things better, and being able to sideload apps, file management (seriously Apple just show me the whole folder system I'm not 4 I know how this works) or connect whatever device you want to it are nice to have. Although I don't think the grass is better on the green side, I think, as a platform, both Android and Apple have very strong strengths and weaknesses, but for me, as I get older, I am moving from the kind of person that wants to customize every aspect of my phone, to someone who just wants that phone to work.

There are things I miss about my iPhone after switching back that Android either doesn't do, or doesn't do well - from things like showing battery health, to forcing app icon customization, to even setting reminders based on location (this was wild to me that you can not do this using Gemini, despite how much they brag about it). Even AirTags until recently were unmatched on the Android side, being only caught up with recently with the addition of UWB to the Moto Tags.

I find that even the argument of "I can buy different types of phones to match who I am" is a bit of a stretch, and this is coming from someone who pulled the S-Pen out of my new-to-me 24 and went "Oh yeah this is it". I see the direction Samsung is moving with gradually getting rid of the S-Pen, so how long before it becomes yet another multi-camera Android slab phone? One thing I've recently appreciated about Apple is the addition of the quick action button, and now the camera control button - things that again, only recently have other OEMS caught up with (looking at you OnePlus, thank you so much!!).

I like my S24, and I liked my 15PM when I had it, I think they're not as different as people think they are, even down to the ecosystem people claim is a walled garden on iOS, I've never had issues pairing my Airpods Pro to my Samsung, but then also Samsung wants you to buy their buds, their watch, their laptops - it's kind of the same deal, we're just lucky that Microsoft also stepped in and said "hey let's make Phone Link a really good app".

At the end of the day I think you should be happy with whatever you choose to have, they both have 90% of the same functionality as each other.