After 16 years of using exclusively iPhones, barring a few months with Windows Phone 7 and 1 week with a Samsung phone a decade ago, I’m almost certainly moving

After 16 years of using exclusively iPhones, barring a few months with Windows Phone 7 and 1 week with a Samsung phone a decade ago, I’m almost certainly moving over to Android with my next phone purchase. There’s very little Apple can do to prevent that at this point because the way Apple operates, with its hardware only running its own software and its software only running largely on its own hardware, it requires a tremendous amount of trust on my part to use Apple. Trust that they won’t screw me over. But at this point the pot has boiled over. At least Android allows me to mitigate the damage by switching over to a different phone manufacturer altogether (if not changing the software experience on my existing phone dramatically). Being in the Apple ecosystem leaves one with no such escape hatch. Right now besides the M and A series of processors it’s hard to tell if there’s anything in the Apple stable that is genuinely superior for my actual life. Something as simple as the Android ability to pin live scores for games on your screen across apps makes a much greater positive difference to my life than anything iOS 26 appears to have (other than maybe better spam call screening…something Androidnhas had for years).