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> What apple offers me is peace of mind and stability.

They’ll literally make your beloved iPhone 11 obsolete in a year or so, deliberately.

I'm under no impression that my phone will continue to work until "the end of time", but if I can get 5-7 years out of a device then I think I got more than my money's worth. The last phone I had before this lasted 2 years before it became practically unusable.

Don't Apple have a better track record for longevity of support compared to their competitors?

Not all competitors. GNU/Linux phones will have lifetime updates (since they run mainline Linux).

I can only hope you’re joking.

Those are not real competition to the iPhone in any meaningful way.

They are, in the long term and, for now, in a niche audience.

The long term is, until proven otherwise, not a talking point.

A "niche audience" is inflating the point.

> The long term is, until proven otherwise, not a talking point.

The same thing occurred with GNU/Linux desktop.

Ah, right. The environment that's barely made a dent from the consumer/non-dev market in 20+ years of existence.

Try to compete when no single shop allows to buy a machine with preinstalled Linux. Even then, Linux has 4% of market or so.

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