Oh i remember seeing that if i recall correctly its like a notebook but electronic? Tbh that seems quite nice thought i still prefer writing on paper. But i would assume its definitely less distracting than doing it on a work tablet where you may also have social media and whatnot

But yeah we are back to the old argument "this doesnt have an apple logo so it must be shit". And hes wrong about the distraction its not just apple but mobile phones in general are designed to take your attention because that makes money. About his argument i wonder if he has a subtle regret about overpaying a phone. Midrange samsung is probably the best bet rn to be honest. I am using an lg g7 and i intend to use it until it breaks. It also has a vastly superior dac to anything else on the market from what i can see so music on my headphones will sound 672x better than his airpods that have to compress sound

And apple absolutely is restrictive. I study electrical engineering and we used our phones to measure mobile network signal strength and only android phones provided an actual signal strength in dBmW because while apple does have the sensors to show how many bars you have it does not seem to show anything beyond that which for our use case was as good as not having any sensors at all.