I was with you on this for many years, but the hostility of the US tech industry, and the worsening stability of otherwise superficially buttery smooth and expertly designed animated UIs made me question my allegiance. Once I tried to get off and realised how walled-in I was — of course all of the nice "integrated" Apple experiences lack data portability — that was the nail in the coffin for me. Horses for courses.
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I think it’s important to know as much as you can about a platform if you’re looking to join it. I knew what Apple stood for, I laughed at them for years from the other side of the fence. I’m just at a point in my life where I am looking for something a bit simpler to use. It’s also the first device where I felt like I was getting my money’s worth.
If I’m being honest, the only device that has a chance of getting me back to Android, would be the ROG, those devices are spec’d out and ASUS is a company I have never bought from. All of the big name companies I have already used and for one reason or another, I moved on. The last Android device I had was the P4XL and it didn’t take me long to realize that their hardware products are trash.
And again, because Android is horribly optimized and highly unsecure, I always had cut software on them, and since the custom ROM scene is pretty much dead, there was no benefit for me to stay with them.
At the end of the day, what works for me may not work for others and vice versa, but it still doesn’t change anything about my original reply.
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