As an end user: are the things you can do with it the same as with anothet phone? Can you take equally good photos with another brand of phone? Yes. Can you run the same AAA games? Yes. Can you run the same apps (apart from ones Apple deliberately limits to iOS)? Yes. Do you get the same network speed? Yes.

I'm not saying there aren't small differences. The secure enclave is very nice, and I understand that for audio creation it's significantly better than Android phones.

But these advantages in some niches (and disadvantages in others, like cost, storage, display size etc) are not sufficient to say that "the technology is clearly superior". It's not, it's just different.