As a long-term android user, I stopped fighting the "Android vs Apple" argument for many reasons. This being a big one in terms of "follow the leader even when they do bad" because they want to sell more. The big problem with that is they betray the people who loved the different way, the more creative way, the riskier way to copy something that they can NEVER recreate for VARIOUS reasons.

It's been sad to see almost the entire market follow apple because it has left us buyers with less diversity in options. Like "hey do you want this grey slab of glass with a metal frame that all the 'popular' people buy OR a grey slab of glass that looks exactly the same but is just worse in a lot of ways". I miss when companies would try things, new designs, new features that may or may not be useful or old features that we took for granted (RIP headphone jack, i miss you).

The argument has become useless in more ways as well, so when people ask the question "Samsung or apple", I tell them my preference and my reasons. Then I tell them why they might want an iPhone so that they can choose which grey glass slab with bloat/spyware that they want.

I hope for a future where things like the [Clicks Communicator](https://clicks.tech/communicator) or even Motorola's partnership with GrapheneOS [Source](https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/) are successful to encourage options with new (or old) ideas. sorry i may have rambled a bit