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Android overall is a pretty terrible experience. Phone manufacturers will pay developers to make Android worse instead of just doing nothing. But presumably they get back the cash in ads or tracking from doing that.

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This is why I love the Nothing Phone and my older Pixel 4A.

Even my Moto G7 came with a relatively unbothered experience.

No headphone jack, it's not worth buying.

I wish Apple still made a nice, inexpensive iPod Nano. That was my favorite "MP3 player", and I'd gladly go without a headphone jack on the phone if I could still have a separate portable music device that wasn't garbage.

Pixel 4A has one. I didn't even notice the Nothing Phone didn't until you just pointed it out.

For me, iPhone is a terrible experience, e.g no proper FLAC support and poor Bluetooth codec support.

I can't say I'm a fan of iPhones either lol

Apple/Google partisans think that criticism of Apple/Google is a form of praise for Google/Apple that lets them off the hook.

Isn't the split more Apple/Not-apple? The Samsung is perfectly usable without the Google ecosystem.

As long as we can agree they are both terrible, then all is good :)

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