Yes, at some point they stopped innovating while androids competing with other androids kept pushing the envelope. Now there are android smart phones at a wide range of price points that all deliver a great experience. I never bought an iPhone for the name or some status bs. I bought it because it was a well designed piece of software and hardware.
Now they keep taking away features to make integration suck with non-apple systems. For example on the trip, I needed to get photos from my laptop to my phone. This was in a remote location with little to no network. I tried transfers with cables and tried Bluetooth (which they quietly took away recently).
I guess the idea was for me to say, geee sure is hard these days to use an iPhone with a PC laptoptop, let me go out and buy a mac book. But instead I said fuck this, and my next smart phone wont have an apple on it.
Btw, the pc laptop was a replacement for a 2009 MBP that had all the ports I needed and a great keyboard. My new laptop has a great keyboard (fuck you butterfly switch) and all the ports I need (fuck you dongles) and my laptop is thin and light while still giving me the features I wanted ANNNND for less money.
ETA: There are plenty of video chat options that don’t depend on a particular phone brand. I was never very happy with FT actually. These days I chat with WhatsApp. I appreciate being able to still send messages in chat while on video and the connection is great for international video chats. Of course WhatsApp got slurped by FB soooo I will be switching to something else but I don’t know what yet. But options exists. is the point.
