The options on Android aren’t much better
Literally every one of them is better, because none of them are running iOS. That's my subjective opinion.
unless you go for some obscure manufacturer who won’t support the phone with updates 1 year after its life cycle.
Samsung and Google both support devices for 5 years now. Doesn't matter how long Apple "supports" the software because they don't support the hardware.
The world continues to enshittify and rest assured no one will put their foot down to stop this.
You mean like USB-C?
So it got USB-C and replaced the vibrate switch with an "action" button.
Most iterative generation ever?
I don't really know what their goal is here. Surely they're not stupid enough to think they could actually win this?
Okay so I'm just not sure what your point is then.
I use it at work because of it has the best dev tools.
Every Chromium fork has those same tools.
Maybe you'd like to attempt again to explain what you meant? Because you have already confirmed my understanding was correct.
no ongoing cost to the manufacturer
The "ongoing cost" is manufacturing diversity. It costs more money to put heated seats in one car and not in another than it does to put them in all of them and allow the people who want them to simply pay to activate them.
That being said, it is a fixed cost, and should be a one-time purchase. Or at least offered as an option. At least Tesla does this correcrly.
My dude, do you have amnesia?
I'd like to point out that they said nothing about it being a bad thing and that all they did was say it was Chinese-owned, hence making your comment a pointless attack of nonsense.
They were very clearly implying that being Chinese-owned is a bad thing (because of the privacy implications), which is the opposite of what you said.
I left it out because its not important. You said they didn't say anything bad and then said you thought they were saying it compromises your privacy. Maybe you don't care about privacy but I think most people would consider invading your privacy very much "a bad thing".
There are a couple. Namely the Zenfone 8.