My iPhone story. Enticed into iOS for the 2020s...
I do get it in the neck from other geeks occasionally for using an Apple iPhone rather than, as many geeks do, an Android-powered smartphone. Now, in truth, I also own several Android phones too, but they're more playthings these days and keeping up with what Google is doing in the phone world, that being (or used to be, seeing as I'm now semi-retired!) my primary trade. Now, between 2007 and 2015, I was a bit scornful of Apple's iPhones. They were either too small, too limited, too locked down (in terms of apps and files), had too poor a camera (certainly relative to my Nokia Series smartphones), or all of the above. And I maintain that I was right, compared to the competition, and despite the ambition of iOS in aiming for desktop-class performance. But 2016 saw the ultra-cheap original iPhone SE and I bought one second hand to play around with and was rather impressed by how fast it was and by how well things just... worked. I set it up with my main accounts and had it...