I lived without Google Play Services on Android for 3 years before moving to iOS, and while it was a decent experience when all you need is a tiny computer (web

I lived without Google Play Services on Android for 3 years before moving to iOS, and while it was a decent experience when all you need is a tiny computer (web browsing, videos via VLC and NewPipe), it lacked what one would expect of smartphone (no location services augmenting GPS, no mobile banking, most chat apps were broken in some way) and even „dumb” phones (the custom ROM I used had a bug where it often wouldn’t let me hear anything in an incoming call, probably something with VoLTE, but I don’t recall whether I ever fixed it). The iPhone is a complete opposite - multimedia and web browsing sucks, but GPS, permission model and Apple Pay are executed nicely.