What I’m a fan of in the Android ecosystem is that you can make those trade-offs. With Apple you can pick a colour and everything else is decided by them.

I can get an Android phone that’s basically all battery, I can get an Android phone that is basically a proper camera system with all of the gimmicks you could imagine. I’m free to pick whatever different configuration of things I want to. This makes it easier to get what you want – when you know what you want. But also can make you step into the wrong direction, because you could get something that makes wrong trade-offs for you.

Last 10 years I was sure that I didn’t want to make any decisions. I got an iPhone, rode it until the next big upgrade came and got that one. But the grass always looks greener, right? So I picked up an Android phone that had – I thought – great set of trade-offs.

Pixel 8a was cheap, great camera, amazing OS (Google’s take on Android UI is imo the best take). But the battery was BAD, charging was slow and the CPU wasn’t fast enough to keep up with my ADHD. That’s what pushed me to OnePlus.

Different trade-offs. Camera ain’t great, but the battery is; OS is a bit worse, but it’s damn fast. And I’d rather make these wrong turns with phones that aren’t for me instead of getting an iPhone and just forfeiting my choice of trade-offs for good.