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A budget Android phone convinced you to go to a manufacturer whose phones start at about double the price of that budget Android phone, for a basic (SE) phone? You'd prefer a Google-free Android, presumably because it would put you more in control, but you're convinced to go the exact opposite way to a completely locked-down platform?

It's a little bit confusing, is all.

Well, I think what I want _is_ a basic phone. I want a low powered cheap phone that runs an operating system that isn't openly hostile to me. I don't want fancy, big, etc. But I can't find a cheap basic android phone that isn't also user-hostile.

I don't _like_ iOS but my options are

* faff about with Google-free android, not be able to use banking apps, etc.

* Give up and accept google's terms

* Give up and accept Apple's terms

I really wish Ubuntu phone or Firefox OS had taken off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS And Apple's seem better.

Pixel + grapheneOS, the most practical privacy phone you can get.

What other reasons would make you leave the iPhone beyond the Google decoupling?

What didn't you like about it?