You are in fact literally required to purchase an Apple or Google phone to participate in an OECD economy. Your employer will require it, your government will require it. Increasingly, your banks and doctors will require it. Unless you're telling people to live off the grid? But maybe we can have something between the two extremes of living in a fucking jungle or submitting to an enforced duopoly wherein two companies control what billions of people can publish and take a 30% cut from it all? No? That too unreasonable for you?

Literally can't do banking without them. Nor park my car. Nor interact with 99% of all businesses here.

Google and Apple aren't, but my banks and government services are trying their best.

Thank god for the US government who had Huawei start HarmonyOS so that long term there will be competition in the world

I would love to know of a water resistant phone of a different operating system, anybody know of one?