[_Codemonkeyism]

"Well consider it lesson learned for not just going with an iPhone in the first place"

Been there bought the tshirt.

I had the first and second and third generation iPhone, first iPod (the one with a drive), first iPod touch, first iPod mini, first and second generation iPad, a Cube (upgraded with everything possible), XServes/XSans, a decade of MacbookPros, Airs and some iMacs (which currently I code on).

Apple quality went down and they don't care anymore since they wanted to become a luxury brand (e.g. screen with yellow blobs, bad iPhone reception, Wifi trouble on every Air, forced hardware upgrades b/c new iOS versions are slow). OSX is especially buggy with every release, especially SMB.

So I'm not a happy Apple user either.

[matwood]

I was annoyed with Apple when it took them so long to release a bigger phone so I switched to Android. Had an HTC One, then a Nexus 5 (I also have a Nexus 7). I switched back to the iPhone for many of the same reasons you list for not using it.

Buggy Android versions, abysmal performance on a devices just a year old if they were upgraded at all, random processes spin out of control and kill your battery in about 10 minutes and the phone feels like it's melting to list a few. While the iPhone isn't perfect, none of the issues are as bad as what I had on Android. Heck, I have older iPads here for testing that are running betas of the new iOS, and while slow they are usable. Compare that to all the issues the Nexus 7s have had with Android updates.

[_Codemonkeyism]

" older iPads "

How did you manage that? I have some unusable iPads I was using for watching e.g. Amazon videos. I can't use them as their OS no longer updates and Amazon (as most) only support new iOS versions.

Also: After buying a max specced Dell XPS 2016 I fear that you are right, Apple has many problems but others have even larger ones. The Dell with Windows (doesn't run Linux because of nvm) is not even close to working to my satisfaction for a 2500 EUR device.

[matwood]

I don't know what you count as useable, but I have an original iPad Air here (3 years old) that still works fine for my use - some games, email, reading, and internet.

It was only this year that I stopped testing our apps on the iPad 2. It was workhorse, and for many apps was much better than the iPad 3. With the 3 Apple went to retina, but IMHO the rest of the hardware was not quite retina ready.

[supercoder]

Cool, just switch to whoever makes the bug free OS then.

[mixedCase]

You know, there is such a thing as a middle-gound between "especially buggy" and "bug free".