At the scale Apple operates at, if there's a widespread issue with the iPhone, it will be known. And not just reported about on tech nerd sites, it'll be on major news stations because it's potentially affecting your dad and many people you know. That's why bendgate and antennagate were such famous incidents.

If Apple was having hardware and software defects at the rate of recent Pixel phones scaled to the iPhone's marketshare, it would be massive news.

This is very true. Maybe it's just perception, but from the outside, it feels like Google plays the most fast and loose of the mainstream options. Samsung and Apple seem more trustworthy.

Yes, but in terms of:

> I am getting too old to have time to fiddle with this stuff and just want something that works.

I definitely find the iPhone great.

It _generally_ just works. If shit does break there's no fiddling... it's just broken. If it doesn't work the way you want there's no fiddling... suck it up or get a new phone.

I was going to say it's like an appliance and compare it to my toaster, but I would 100% end up at my kitchen table angrily disassembling my toaster if it failed to make me breakfast one morning.

Too bad they pulled an Other OS with it.