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Originally Posted by strat61caster
With only the Pixel offering a vanilla experience
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Check the Android phones Nokia is offering...
May not be what you're after in the end, but really promising. They're already getting Oreo.
Swapping the launcher fixed the minor Sony UI issues I found, but I've foregone rooting and installing alternate ROMs, this one for the first time (I may instead say "screw you, work - you don't get to use my phone, I'm rooting it"). I go back to the HTC Hero (Cyanogen, overclocked stable nearly 50%) and custom stuff (first tablet was an Archos 10" running Android 1.6 - in 2010).
My problem now with Sony is the corners - they eat through my pockets!
The biggest problem with the iPhone is Apple. Everything is now out of your control, and only available through the software they want you to use for whatever it is you're doing. And you have to buy into their whole ecosystem. It's great from a "keep people suckered in" business perspective, but... I don't organize and work the way they think I should, so it fights me the whole way. Hardware is solid, optimization and performance is top notch. Everything else, at best, annoys me. At worst has me wanting to throw the fu**ing thing after 5 minutes of use. I've spent more time fixing stuff Apple so kindly 'fixed' for me (I tried doing music with iTunes briefly because my wife loves Apple and it was easier for us to share the stuff that way... it was faster for me to delete and re-rip ~160GB of classical music after it re-organized it and actually separated movements of symphonies! The same piece, and it put it in different places and it wouldn't play the whole piece together, in order.)
Don't get me started on their 'special' keyboard layout.
At this point, I immediately think significantly less of someone if they believe Apple is the bees knees. Different. Just like everyone else pretending to be different desperately trying to be SOMEONE and fit in...