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    tldr and summarization of this definitely too long post is in its last paragraph.

    Today a thought went through my head when watching some tech news YouTube video and I thought of sharing it here.

    Just for some background, I used to switch phones in every 6 months or so.

    This kind of changed when I bought OG iPhone SE - my first iPhone. I used it for a year but it's camera quality while consistent was somewhat lacking. I switched it for Huawei P9. Its photos quality was mind blowing compared to the SE. Image sharpness felt really next-gen compared to the iPhone. Not to mention it's long exposure mode and lowlight/night photo quality was mind blowing at the time.

    But I missed iPhone and iOS. Its fluid animations, reliability and went back to another SE after almost another year. Got an used 6s plus for my wife as well to check how embracing the iMessage airdrop and such would feel as none of my contacts had iPhones at the time. It was pretty neat that we could bind our iCloud accounts as family and to be able to check each other's location (no more calling to check if I'm on my way from work already or if wife is returning from uni yet), iMessage was pretty neat and allowed me to mostly drop usage of FB message as I text my wife the most, airdrop is more convenient than BT as well.

    After some time I thought of getting something with better camera for low light shots and iPhones did not deliver that compared to Android ones (night sight was around for about a year then). I bought Xiaomi Mi Mix 2s which has amazing build quality and was able to run google camera mod with night sight. Again low light photos or even those indoors were awesome compared to good old SE, bigger screen was awesome, battery great but it felt like an iPhone ripoff - great made though. I was genuinely happy with this phone, bought some more into Android ecosystem by getting the Samsung Galaxy Watch 46mm which is pretty great smart watch to be honest (nice design not to mention 5 day battery life).

    But there were few reasons that I wish I had an iPhone. • As Samsung Watch does not work with GPay and supports only Samsung Pay, I was not able to pay with it as Samsung Pay is not available in my country. I was thinking of getting an Apple Watch instead which works only with an iPhone. • Missed some apps that I had on iPhone (like Apollo). • My wife as well as my in laws and brother that all bought iPhones in the meantime were complaining that we cannot use iMessage (that grew on us a lot) anymore. • I got a MacBook instead Dell as my work laptop and wanted to try going into the ecosystem more.

    As the iPhone 11 release was coming closer we decided to sell my wife's 6s+ as it still kept its vale quite high and bought XR. It turned out to have great battery life that was tempting to me. But I decided to wait 2 more months and see what will 11 offer.

    And here it was same as XR but with wide angle camera and night mode. Its form factor was very similar to my Mi Mix 2s. I went for the change. Gave my old phone to my mother (she still uses it and is more that happy with it) and bought the 11 in the first week after release. After getting the phone I found someone wanting to trade his 1 month old Apple Watch for Samsung watch, paired my MacBook with my iCloud account and have experienced real bliss of not having to look use my phone at all during work since I can reply to texts from my laptop :)

    Then I bought Apple Watch for my wife as well for walkie talkie and activity challenges.

    The though that got to me was since I got iPhone 11 it checks all the boxes for me. Great battery, wireless charging, great low light camera performance, good enough screen, iOS with more and more features after updates (proper implementation of dark mode, great interface to select audio output), great smart watch with Apple Pay, Apple Pay in general that allows me to pay for e-commerce shopping, how great it works with AirPods and MacBook, great selection of accessories for both iPhone and Apple Watch and so much more.

    The realization was that in about 1.5 year I have not thought of getting any other phone even once! And as my max battery capacity is down to 87% I think when it reaches that 80% I will very unlikely change my phone and get the battery replaced instead. Never thought it would happen to me to be honest.

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