This is a common question for most of people, including me. No doubt both of them are good and completely full functional in itself. You might face the confusion in making a choice in between the two if you are thinking to buy a phone. So I will tell you the basic reason why some people hate android while others love it; and why some people love iPhone and others hate it.
Applications are not the reason. Both have plenty of applications which are equally comparable. Actually, there is nothing bad in both of them, the thing which is bad is actually the choice made by the buyer. I will tell you how.
The iPhone don't requires configuring each and everything. It means most of the features are pre-configured for you. It also doesn't allow you to change some of the critical configurations of the phone which if set to some illegal values, can badly ruin your phone. So, you can conclude that iPhone is best option for those people who don't like to configure and reconfigure their phone again and again. This is opposite of android. Although android also provides many pre-configured features, but it gives the flexibility to change them according to your choice. So, android is best suited for a person who knows and like to completely change the configurations according to itself. This is the reason android supporters claims android to be more flexible.
Now you can say that if a person, who don't want to change any configuration of its phone, buys an android, then how can he be satisfied? It's not the android's fault, it's just a wrong choice. Same applies to iPhone haters.
