TL;DR article is a nothingburger trying to convince you that one person's preferences are "right".

"iphones have better apps" - that's a very opinionated stance, that really should have been worded "iphones have the apps I want". Because I have an android phone, have had for, what, 2 decades now? Since the galaxy s1... And my wife has an iphone - because I started her on that route, because at the time, it was the s1 vs the iphone 3g, and the iphone 3g definitely felt like the superior option, especially with hobbled software updates in my country. In the ensuing years, I've had to support her phone and mine, and I can easily say, hands-down, that my app preference is not on the iOS platform. Doesn't mean "Android is better than iOS" - just means "Android suits _ME_ better than iOS". I even tried a couple of windows phones (my company had them for us to dev on), as well as her old iphone when she upgraded) - and by "tried" I mean, "daily drove" for a week or more. My experience was frustration with the locked-down nature of iphones, disappointment at the small app market for windows phones (even though the hardware - nokia - was glorious), and an eventual return to android even though battery life on the windows phone was phenomenal (the platform simply doesn't allow hogging the cpu - both a challenge for devs, and a boon for users).

Honestly, I'm rather bored of people telling me that their opinions are facts, and the best out there. They're tools for tasks. The author didn't prefer Android (and doesn't really clarify beyond the "apps" line, which is a clear indicator that they became accustomed to specific iphone apps they couldn't find alternatives for - much like how I was frustrated with an iphone for a week, for the same reason).