> Android phones are superior in hardware At least regarding choice in hardware. I'm tapping this out from the last BlackBerry handset ever produced (albeit by

> Android phones are superior in hardware At least regarding choice in hardware. I'm tapping this out from the last BlackBerry handset ever produced (albeit by a third party), and I can hang on to it indefinitely because I can replace the parts as they break. The hardware isn't gated to what the OEM allows. For maps, OSM works well enough. And when I find a place I want to go that's not mapped, Google Maps in a mobile browser works just fine - no account or app needed. Hell, at least one time (visiting in Germany) OSM had the correct opening hours for a shop that Google Maps had wrong. Google is not all-knowing, or even required for modern life.