Prior to iPhone I was Samsung (S2, S3) then OnePlus and finally Nexus 6P. Their defining characteristics were “flagship killer for mid-tier price”.

I was eagerly awaiting the first Pixel phone as an upgrade, because their release coincided with my upgrade schedule. Then they released and the pricing was equal to iPhone 7.

There was no obvious Android alternative at the time, so I said “if I’m going to spend iPhone money anyway, I’m going to buy an iPhone”.

Almost yearly upgrades ever since, except I skipped 12 and 13, got the 14PM late after release and the 15PM on release.

I’ve seen the state of the Android device market and I don’t like what I see, but I’m gradually being tempted because of the now ridiculously high price of iPhone.

Idiotic and immature action leads to dead iPhone.

Of course it did. Some random 3rd-party proxying plaintext copies of all users messages was never going to result in success.

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Apple’s 180 on adopting RCS is because they realised people will risk stupid things in an effort to interop with iMessage, which tarnishes the brand.