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> I just don't use mobile as my primary driver. For me, phones are for texting and browsing Reddit while I shit.

That's the reason I use an iPhone. I don't need a bunch of customization and homescreen tinkering, I just want a thing that gets the job done and is easy to troubleshoot.

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But you don't HAVE to do those things on Android.... My Pixel is exactly that, gets the job done without problems or fuss.

I want the same thing, but which also isn't an Apple product

It really makes me think... should we all have bought into blackberry/palm/windows' smartphone efforts in the 2010s? They seemed inferior at the time but, in hindsight, it's hard to imagine anything worse than where we are now.

The Nokia Lumia 1310 was the best phone ever made. Best UI, best screen and Camera of its generation, and you could program apps in C# for UWP so they ran on Desktop or Mobile (For that reason, there are still hobbyists who sideload new apps on their Lumias since the SDK still exists and works on modern windows). Like all things, Microsoft made the best version of the product, but not the most successful version

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