Comment by thewebguyd

This is something I appreciate about Apple/iOS (and by extent, macOS as well). They still provide a "neutral" calendar app & mail app (and even reminders can sync with other services). Apple offers email, but they don't really try to convince you to use it or force you into it (at least, they didn't used to). It's just "whatever service you use, we don't care but here's some nice native apps to use with those services"

Android OOTB, especially on Pixels, just sort of assumes you are using Google for everything. There's no "Calendar" there's only Google calendar, there's no Mail app there's only Gmail, etc.

iOS feels like an agnostic OS, however locked down, Android still feels purely like a Google product meant to push Google services.