this is kida long, but...
i was android for the loooongest, bought the first oneplus and stuck with them for a while. great phone. i couldn't understand why people wanted to pay for shit i could get for free (music, games, etc). i used to be on divine broke ass about his apple stanning.
then i started doing some consulting for a law firm, and when a bunch of attorney friends put me in the group chat the shit turned green. niggas roasted the shit outta me. i was on and on about how much of a better spec'd phone than theirs i had. my shit smoked theirs on paper.
we went on a trip to and the homie went to the aquarium to dive with the sharks. he sent a video, everybody phone went off at the same time but mine. i was like wth. i watched the video on their phones, real cool shit. minutes later mine went off, and not only did it take longer to get to me, but it looked like shit. same video.
i realized that people who made fun of android pic/video quality did so because anything they got through sms from an android user got compressed to hell and looked like garbage. imessage was the magic sauce, because it's a native data messaging platform. people in the states don't be on all them 3rd party apps, they just wanna open up their texts and get full functionality. android people had to, and presumably still have to, to an extent, send you shit on whatsapp or some other platform people may or may not have to get the quality built into imessage.
them niggas ended up getting me an iphone after that, just so the group would go back blue lol
ngl, now i understand and wouldn't go back. i was philosophically against paying for anything digital because i been a lifelong pirate. true bgol shit. now i pay a lil a month for some stuff, i don't even notice the money and i love the convenience and ease of seamless services. it is what it is i guess.