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Agreed.

My business depends on my phone. If I can’t call clients or pull google maps up, I’m screwed. I have both an iPhone and an Android. I’ve never had an iPhone die for no good reason. Every single android phone I’ve owned prior to my OP 8T has died in under a year. I got hit with the LG bootloop bug on my first android phone and it just went from there.

And that’s just hardware. The other day I realized my 8T had bricked itself. I hadn’t used it in a few days, and an OTA update broke something. Wouldn’t flash back the normal way either, I had to go and dig up specialized software and a copy of the ROM from XDA. I’ve never had an iPhone have a bug that a simple reboot wouldn’t fix.

The same thing extends to computers too. I think macOS is an abomination, but the hardware they put out it leaps and bounds ahead of pretty much every other manufacturer. In comparison, my surface book 2 has been a steaming pile of shit from day 1. I built my desktop, but my laptop is a MBP. I’d get 3-4 hours of battery on the SB2 with brightness all the way down. The MBP will literally last all day unless I’m running Thinkorswim. Whoever thought that its performance was acceptable should be shot. Even on my desktop it will routinely use 5gb+ RAM alone.

That may be just you. I've owned several Android phones, and none of them have died on me.

> Every single android phone I’ve owned prior to my OP 8T has died in under a year.

Ah, yes… comparing a 1500$ iphone with a 50$ android and complaining about the quality.

I’ve used S10 a couple years back, the point still stands.

I've had several Android phones now, if I do change them before 3 years it's due to their battery.

1 billion people use iPhone, 4+ billion use Android. Both platforms are solid.

This started with my LG g3. That was a flagship when I got it. My HTC M8 also died. I had a galaxy s3, s4, s6, and a note. The note 8 was the only one that survived longer than a year.

Meanwhile, my iPhone 7+ was in service for 6 years. I owned it until I upgraded to an XS, and a family member used it up until last year. I used the XS until I got a free upgrade to the 13.

My business depends on my phone and computer too.

My Pixel 4a, and ThinkPad T480 (running Linux) are ancient, venerable, and have never failed me.

Your experience /may/ be the outlier.

MBPs do have fantastic battery life though. I look forward to an ARM based ThinkPad one day that can achieve similar.

I wasn’t sure if your comment meant that you look forward to owning it or you look forward to Lenovo making one but there is already an ARM thinkpad, the x13s

A couple years back, my $3000 MBP randomly died. It was around a year old. I had to take it to the Apple Store. They couldn't fix it. They had to ship it some place else for repair. I was out $600 and a week with no work computer. If you depend on a computer for work and can't afford to be without for extended periods of time, it seems to me that you'd want one that was actually repairable.

You’re just proving the point that there’s and absolute need for sideloading.

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