@0c1a9324@5d9669cc absolutely. Apple's repair process is so vastly better than anyone else's. I'd probably switch if they made a folding iPhone, but it's not going to happen soon enough to change my next phone.
@0c1a9324@5d9669cc Sony made a ~7" phone for a while back when bezels were a thing and phones were small. I loved it but would never buy another. I'm a big guy with big hands and cargo pockets, so the physical size was fine.
The problem was engineering. You just can't build a rigid box with a glass front that is marketably thin and light, >7" diagonal, and rigid enough to survive in a pocket. I broke 3 of them in 6 months. The last one ended up banana-shaped.
@0c1a9324@5d9669cc considering how willing Sony was to ship me continued replacements, maybe I'm the only person who wanted a phone that big and they had warehouses full of them, all unsold.
I'll probably get a folding phone next (age, eyes, etc), but I'm wary of either Samsung or Google being able to repair them in a reasonable timeframe.
Ok, fine. I'm worried about Samsung. After-launch support is not something that Google is structurally capable of.
@0c1a9324@5d9669cc Sony made a ~7" phone for a while back when bezels were a thing and phones were small. I loved it but would never buy another. I'm a big guy with big hands and cargo pockets, so the physical size was fine.
The problem was engineering. You just can't build a rigid box with a glass front that is marketably thin and light, >7" diagonal, and rigid enough to survive in a pocket. I broke 3 of them in 6 months. The last one ended up banana-shaped.
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