Yeah the market for Android phones seems to have devolved into nothing but cheap iPhone copies these days, with little if any, actual innovation in years (with

Yeah the market for Android phones seems to have devolved into nothing but cheap iPhone copies these days, with little if any, actual innovation in years (with maybe a few exceptions from Samsung). Pretty much the only specs they even try to compete on is camera quality. I still stick with Pixel/Android since I prefer to have full ownership of my device from a development/hacker standpoint, but even that quality has been diminishing with each new version of Android. It's like every new release just makes the OS worse instead of better, so it's not something I look forward too anymore. It really raises the question why am I even buying Android stuff in the first place? From a consumer perspective they are basically just inferior iPhones at this point and while I can technically do some advanced stuff with android, most of these abilities are locked behind adb now or simply outright disabled. I can't even freely change ROMs now since I'd lose the ability to remotely deposit checks. From my perspective, it seems Android has nothing but a dark future ahead of it.