I recently switched to Android. IPhones work great, the hardware is all there, the software is probably more polished, etc... but on Android you can get the phone to do basically anything with a bit of effort. There's an app that lets you easily install most linux packages, and one that can emulate most Windows apps and games. There's a ton of open source software, and you can actually find apps that don't shove in-app purchases in your face (because devs don't have to pay $100 a year just to stay on the store)

I got PrusaSlicer to work on my phone, through the Windows emulator, and sliced one relatively complex 3D model with it. For some reason it crashed every time I tried to start it after that, but it's still pretty neat that it worked at all. PrusaSlicer has a linux build for ARM so whenever I find the time to set up one of those linux desktops on my phone I'll probably try that.

Well I know iphones are great quality devices & have long lasting support, but if I can't tinker with it then to me it's hardly better than a gilded brick

By "tinker with it" I mean installing apps like youtube revanced, playing morrowind, having access to a terminal etc