Android vs iPhone
Ford vs Chevy
Pepsi vs Coke
It is all about your taste and influences.
I personally am a Android guy. I consider myself to be a power user. I just got the Galaxy Note 7. This is my I think 10th Android phone going back to the original Droid by Motorola. I sometimes pick on iPhone users as "Lemmings" like Chevy picks on FORD's as "Fix Or Repair Daily"
IMHO, prior to Steve Job's demise, you had to admit he had his finger on what excited people. I think Apple lost that. Samsung have been coming out with some really nice devices. As an example, the last 3 phones I have owned. Note 3, Note 4 & Note 5, I never needed to Root them to get all the productivity I needed. While all the previous HTC and Motorola Androids I did Root them. When the iPhone 7 comes out we will see how things shake out. But as of now Apple is behind the curve.
Water Resistance:
Uh, the iPhone 6S, 6S plus, and iPhone SE are fairly water resistant.
"The first video pits the iPhone 6s Plus against the Galaxy S6 Edge in a small container, under a few inches of water. Each smartphone survived an impressive thirty minutes submerged under water, and appeared to retain their entire functionalities afterwards. As noted by Keaton Keller, the creator of the video and part of the TechSmartt channel, last year the iPhone 6 died after a brief minute facing the same test." Source — MacRumors, Monday September 28, 2015
On the other hand, the Samsung is the only major Android phone claiming water "proof" and it didn't fair too well in Consumer Reports testing for water resistance.
Samsung Galaxy S7 Active fails Consumer Reports Water Resistance Test.
Wireless Charging
That's not such a big deal, and certainly not "HUGE" as you characterize it. Apple's Apple Watch uses wireless charging so it is certainly not something that is beyond Apple's capabilities. However, it's not a game changer unless you can "beam" the power to your phone from anywhere, because you are STILL tethered to a power cable to the wireless charging station and have to put the phone ON the induction charger. It is no more or less work to plug a handset into a reversible cable, something that takes ten seconds or less to do, than it is to put your phone on its charging pad. Extra charging stands for your Samsung phones run anywhere from $20 to $100. iPhone chargers can be had for $2 to $15, or you can merely plug the data cable into the nearest computer and charge it. Sometimes tech is just a cool gimmicky marketing ploy.
IRIS Scanning for security
HEHEHEHEH. Have you seen the advisory list of suggestions Samsung has provided on what to do if your phone doesn't unlock with an Iris scan? Or the reasons it may not work? Try cleaning the Iris camera. Move to an area where there is less glare. Move to an area with less sunlight, one that is "slightly shaded." Take off your glasses. Remove your contact lenses. Hold the phone at the correct distance, the one you used when you registered your irises. If your eyes are "slightly swollen" or partially shut, it's likely the iris scanner won't recognize you. Oops. If any of these prevent the iris scanner from working you'll have to use an alternative method to unlock your phone. You do realize that iris scanning has been shown to be one of the least secure means of preventing entry because a high resolution image of a person's eyes can fool the scanner? It's another marketing scam to make Android users think they are more secure when they are not.
On the other hand, Apple's "fingerprint" scanner does not even read the actual fingerprint, but rather looks under the fingerprint and reads the ridges and valleys of the fat pad below the skin, something that cannot be determined by an image or a contact fingerprint and thus requires a real human finger to be pressed to the sensor. That is much more secure.
Stylus
ROTFLMAO. The stylus is the latest technology? Give me a break. The whole point of smartphones with a multitouch, capacitance screen interface is to obviate the requirement of the stylus which was required with the old resistance single touch screens. As Steve Jobs, ahem, "pointed out" humans always carry the best pointing device with them, the human finger. You can't lose it, it's convenient, and it's intuitive to use. With the algorithms that Apple invented and patented, the accuracy that was made possible is sufficient to do everything you need to do on a phone.
Yes, Apple has the most sophisticated stylus on the market for their iPad Pro, but it does far more than any mere stick stylus does. Look it up if you don't know what it's capabilities are. Read the reviews. In addition, there have been third-party styluses available for the iPhone for those who wish to have them for nine years.
Device Speed
The iPhone line has been the fastest phone on the market for the past five years, bar none, beating every Android phone on the market. Despite using fewer cores in the Apple A series processors, the iPhones and iPads have consistently drubbed the four and eight core processor Android phones and tablets in both the majority of benchmark and real world tests.
Security
There is literally no contest here. Android is a hot bed of malware with millions of malware in the wild and hundreds of millions of Android devices STILL at risk of being hijacked because they have not been updated to the latest Android OS or even security patches. The number of exploits for iOS in the wild in the last nine years can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand and the number of actual devices compromised is approaching zero.
User Privacy
Apple's encryption is built-in to the hardware and iOS. Android's is an optional add on which has to be downloaded at the request of the user. Even Samsung's vaunted Knox security was found to keep its passwords in an unencrypted text file in a library where anyone who looked could find them . . . in other words, not secure at all. Android security is a joke.
Lemmings revisited
The real lemmings are those who follow the Android crowd, the most traveled road and the least common denominator of operating systems.