[jhloa2]

My experience with android has been the opposite. I’ve never had an android phone that lasted more than 2 years without becoming frustratingly slow whereas my iPhone 8 still runs as well as the day I got it. All anecdotal but I stick with what works for me

[rjzzleep]

All my androids have lasted quite a while actually, but I had to replace various parts of them. headphone jack, display assembly, sdcard slot. I have an Xperia XZ2 that has/had a really annoying touchscreen issue where the cursor will jump around(soon after I bought it). Apparently it's just an issue with the phone. I bought a second hand iPhone 8 a year later and have been using it since.

I guess I don't care as much about how the phone looks and more about the fact that the iPhone 8 is still on latest iOS whereas XZ2 and basically all sony phones will hardly get any updates and you get to choose between keeping your camera or updating your phone and keeping it fast with a custom rom(yes, you keep your phones camera active nowadays even after unlocking, but there is no updated camera HAL on the latest custom rom, you'll always have a subpar camera experience). Sony even announced that the Xperia 1 III will only receive one major update recently. Although everyone is still hoping that that was a mistake but the europeans.

I would say Xiaomi deserves it though. They're cheap devices with good performance(and inofficial GCAM), and usually some (not great) open source drivers that allow for fast custom rom development(although that too has taken a turn for worse recently).