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I haven't used Android as a daily phone since the EVO (I know, its been a while). One issue I had with Android and custom firmware was the time involved. Being on a computer all day, and often times at night, having to deal with tech support issues on my device is a hard stop (for me, personally, plenty of people love it).

That's the nice part of Apple's ecosystem - its pretty simple and requires minimum intervention.

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As someone who had an Evo with custom FW back in the day, I can attest the process is much simpler in recent years. If you do your research and ensure the device you are purchasing has official lineage support, the entire setup procsss takes less than an hour. Lineage includes built in update support as well, although to upgrade between major versions you still need to use a computer if I remember correctly.

I purchased my first iPhone since the 3G this year, and it is currently for sale on swappa. I am willing to compromise on a slightly less polished UI and subpar camera to get the UX of android back; at least for me, iOS was lacking many features I could consider essential.

To be fair, once you get past the initial setup, everything mostly Just Works™. But still, I completely understand not wanting to deal with installation and the potential consequences if something goes wrong. (I nearly bricked a device from a botched installation once, so I know how stressful that is.)

I don't doubt that it just works nearly as well as an iPhone, but I want someone else to be responsible if things do go wrong.

For similar reasons, I don't self-host important services like email despite having my own domain. If shit goes wrong, I want the company I'm paying to have their people take care of it. I don't want to have to rush to fix it myself.

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