As one who said he’d never own an iPhone, after months/years of putting up with crappy Android devices that end up shitting themselves, I relented and went to Apple, which work every time, year after year. So they may have a monopoly on smartphones that actually just work.
I too was Android for approx. 14 years before finally switching to iphone. It wasn’t any sort of Apple “monopoly” that made me switch. It was my choice based on overall features. Any of us can walk into any Best Buy or Wal-Mart or Verizon/T-Mobile/AT&T and easily switch to an Android device in probably 1 hour or less
Same and took some getting used to but my pro max 14 is nearly two years old, used constantly and still runs like new, battery efficiency is still at 98%, etc and short of my physically breaking it will probably serve me well another 2-4 years
I used to replace my Samsungs about every 18 months out of necessity