Which do you prefer? Devices with Apple’s iOS or Windows 8.1?

I ask this question because had it been asked a little over a year ago, most responses would be iOS. However, since Microsoft’s release and the update of the 8.1 operating system, they seem to be making traction in not only the tablet market, but mobile phones as well.
I remember my first cell phone. Had it mounted in my car….a whole 100 minutes a month with additional fees for long distance and roaming (roaming was anywhere pretty much outside of my county). Then came the smaller phones. How many remember the StarTac? I felt like a King when I got that one.
Eventually I ended up in IT Sales for a global company. We were given Blackberry’s. What a status symbol it represented to many of us…we have finally made it…a company paid Blackberry where we could email AND text. WOW. But as with anything in the IT Market, it you don’t stay ahead of the game and an innovator (or at least an innovating thief – stealing someone else’s technology to make it better and claim it as your own), you will eventually fall behind, or worse, fall off.
When I worked at that company, the emergence of the iPhone and many Android phones were becoming available. Being able to do more than read email and text, these “Smartphones” opened up a whole world of productivity as well as Entertainment (Netflix app). Near the last year I worked there, the company decided to stop having company owned phones. They let us keep them if we would transfer the number to our names. My first course of action after having the account transferred to me?....off to the AT&T store so I could buy a new iPhone 4.
I have been a dedicated iOS device owner for years now. Eventually purchasing an iPad and then updating my phone to the 5S when they came out, I thought I would NEVER be interested in anything else again. And then I was introduced to the Microsoft Surface Pro 3.
I am with another global IT product and Services Company now and on occasion will go out to see my client’s with a Microsoft rep. I don’t like bringing my company laptop to meetings, preferring to leave that docked on my desk and bringing along my iPad. After a few meetings with the Microsoft Rep, I noticed his laptop/tablet. I asked to take a look at it and he showed me all of the features and functionality of it. I instantly wanted one. After a few weeks, my employer sent me one. I tried to find anything and everything with this that was subpar to an iPad. The ONLY thing I could find was this: it didn’t have the Hasbro Scrabble App that I love to play at night. That’s it…nothing more. Any and all other apps I used on my iPad are either offered for Windows 8.1 as well or they are similar apps I was able to download. Functionality? Now I am able to work on a Windows platform, where it is easy to view, create and edit documents/presentations for work. And what’s better? The Windows 8.1 phone will allow me to share all of the data and info…much like my iPhone and iPad does.
So my very long winded answer to my question is this: I prefer the Windows 8.1 devices now to any iPad or iPhone. AND as soon as Windows 10 comes out, I’ll have my old start button back that was in Windows 7 and prior.