iPhone vs. Android has been the biggest rivalry in tech for the best part of a decade. While there are well over 800 million active iPhone users in the world right now, Androids are estimated at a billion, according to businessinsider.com.

iOS 10, a new software update released by Apple on September 13, is by far the best mobile operating system currently available, but the Android has advantages of its own. iOS does have a more secure platform than Android. iOS isn’t impregnable, and it’s very dangerous for iPhone users to assume that it is, but far more malware is written for Android. The Pulse Secure’s 2015 Mobile Threat Report put the figure at 97 percent of all mobile malware, while the US Department of Homeland Security estimated in 2013 that just 0.7 percent of malware threats were aimed at iOS. While this is partly because Android has more users, it’s mainly because it’s simply an easier target, reported macworks.co.uk.

The iPhone is also a lot more private than an Android. Not only do the passcodes and fingerprints protect the iPhone, but the way that the iPhone locks up for successively longer periods the more times you get the passcode wrong, in order to prevent would-be hackers from ‘brute-forcing’ the passcode (iOS has an additional, optional setting in which 10 incorrect password entries erases all of the phone’s data). As well as introducing Touch ID, the iPhone 5s was the first iPhone to feature a security measure that Apple calls the Secure Enclave, a subsection of the processor chip that stores the fingerprints and other security-critical data. It is also a crucial part of the encryption setup.

Once people have tried the iPhone they tend to stick with it, according to gottabemobile.com. iPhones also have iOS, which is more user friendly than an Android and also has better apps.

Although Androids are cheaper, buying the iPhone is well worth the money. If someone wants a smartphone that’s safe, easy and enjoyable to use, and connected to the best-quality app store around (not to mention sumptuously designed and reliable), then iPhone is the only answer.