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iPhone 3g. Bought it new yet within a month of purchasing it Apple released iOS 4 which slowed it down so much it might as well have been bricked.

That, plus the lack of OTA updates, needing to plug into a PC/Mac with iTunes (horrible app) to load music, backup photos or update lead me to never purchase an Apple product again.

Going from that to an HTC Android phone was like going 10 years into the future.

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That’s a long time to hold onto a bad memory

If Apple didn't have such a paternalistic attitude towards their customers, I might have forgotten. But they do. I definitely care about my ability to do what I want with stuff I've purchased...

Apple still sucks though.

As long as you can afford to keep up with their releases, their usability is miles ahead of the competition.

There are a thousand things I do with my Android phone that simply can not be done on an iPhone.

Thus an iPhone has ZERO usability for me.

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