FWIW.
I cannot comment on the relative merits of either platform as I do not own a phone of any description whatsoever--not even a fixed line.
Having said that, from what I've seen, I would never buy anything from Apple--they're good at marketing, but they're a bunch of anti-competitive ****ers, and their developer agreements are a joke. One can hardly blame a developer for wanting to steer clear of them.
40 million phones sold is, if anything, evidence that the world has at least 40 million very gullible people. You can either be a greedy bastard and take advantage of them, or you can have principles. To each their choice.