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  • iOS because Apple ecosystem is much more convenient and consistent. I do not worry so much about the struggle you mentioned because the EU will fix it (see USB-C, sideoading, more to come)

  • FairPhone 4 because it is the only phone with removable battery and LineageOS support.

  • Apple has always been greedy, in my opinion, but seldom evil.

    They are the only major corporation that still makes an effort for privacy (though many people are understandably very skeptical) e.g.

    • fully end-to-end-encrypting most of your iCloud data,
    • blocking tracking pixels in Mail (not technically correct, but good enough approximation)
    • having iCloud Private Relay (something like Tor network) built into Safari
    • blocking tracking of your behaviour by anonymising your device
    • they even scramble data about your Maps trips, inserting wrong information before they send analytics back to themselves, through what is called differential privacy.

    Other reasons I use iOS:

    • They offer software updates for >6 years, so I really get great bang for my buck. Total cost of ownership is typically less than other flagship products.
    • Integration with their other products.
    • General polish, smoothness and ease of use.

    I too rely on governments to rein in their greediness (e.g. Right to Repair, having multiple App Stores, etc.)

    • They offer software updates for >6 years

      That was the reason why I migrated to iPhone last year.

      I used Android for many years, but I got tired of vendors stopping system updates after 6 months or so of a model being out.

      I keep my phone at least 4-5 years, even more if it doesn't break, and with all the sensitive data and apps we keep on it nowadays (mobile banking, digital identities, authenticators, etc.) it's not acceptable to stay years without security fixes.

      It's true that apple devices are expensive but it's enough to not buy the latest models, get a bit older one and you can get it for the same price as a medium-high Android.

  • Fairphone 4 running /e/OS. I love the modularity, quality and robustness. Just the fact that if I drop my screen I can just replace it for €80 using my own hands.

    /e/OS is still in development, which you sometimes notice, but I love its privacy focused aspects. It is decoupled from Google, includes a tracker monitor and blocker, an appstore that can download apps from the Google Play store anonymously and best of all the developers do deliver. All their releases are well tested.

    The only thing I struggle with are in app purchases. If they use the Google Play platform they just won't work.

    I bought this phone from Murena, which is a branch of the /e/Foundation that sells devices with /e/OS preinstalled.

  • iPhone 13 Pro, my previous phone was an iPhone 6s which received nearly 7 years of software updates. I don’t know of any Android manufacturer that supports devices for that long at the moment which was the main reason I stuck with Apple.

  • Currently own a Sony Xperia 1 IV. Been buying Sony phones for about 10 years now. I can hardly break them even without a case, despite being super clumsy, and Sony actually does interesting innovating things that are useful instead of following trends blindly or relying on marketing.

    I run a quite degoogled Android 13 atm. Next phone will be a Pixel however, because I wanna switch to GrapheneOS. Wanting to switch OS is also the only reason I even consider a different brand phone.

  • iphone se, because it was possible to buy refurbished with 3 years warranty for ca 100 euro

  • Galaxy J7. It's incredibly slow, I can't flash it or root it. But it runs what I need, unlike Apple would, and the battery is still great after 6 years and it has a headphone jack.

  • After many years of using custom stock ROMs on my phone's, that were always better and more up to date than the branded android ROM the phone came with, I've decided a few months ago to finally get a Google Pixel 6.

    It's a great experience, basically feels like all the custom ROMs I've been using all these years but the camera is great and Google Wallet works, also some pixel exclusive niceties like the PO Pixel app from teenage engineering, etc, and as always the most up to date Android version available.

  • Google Pixel 6a for me, just running the stock ROM/OS. I used to be into trying out custom ROMs but over the years I ended up falling in the "I don't want my phone to randomly stop working while I'm out and need to make a call" stage.

    Plus, I actually enjoy quite a few features from the stock OS such as call screening (which reduces spam calls a ton), direct my call, and whichever feature is the one that provides an estimate on the wait time when calling into a toll free line. There's also "Hold for me" which I haven't tried yet but it seems like an interesting idea, but I'd only use it if there were going to be a fairly long wait.

    I don't know if those features work on the custom OS options (as I don't keep up with that realm anymore), plus potential stability issues which I've always had on other devices (including previous Pixels) makes me just stick with the default.

    Although, on my Pixel 3a XL since I no longer use it as my daily driver, I slapped Ubuntu Touch on it and it seems interesting, though definitely has a long way to go.

  • I've got the OnePlus Nord 2 Pac-Man Edition running OxygenOS (Android) and I plan to use it as long as possible before switching to Fairphone eventually

    • OnePlus Nord gang gang, I'm on a Nord CE 2 Lite 5G. I'll probably flash LineageOS once support is available. Fairphone seems nice but it's hard to get where I live. :/

      • Yeah. I've been on the OnePlus boat since the 3T and tbh. I was about to buy a Fairphone instead of the Nord2 but then they released the Pac-Man Edition which has a backside that glows in the dark and a cover that has dots and lines with small prisms. Usually it would look silver but as soon as f.ex. sunlight hits these spots they start to reflect different rainbow colours.

  • Pixel 3 with CalyxOS.

    Picked it because I don't want to spend $500+ on a new phone and I want to be able to control my OS. Just buying the phone and using Android on it to going to CalyxOS saw a huge increase in performance, theoretically because it's not working to process all the data collection. My phone should be MY phone and not someone else's bottom line.

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