It started when Google announced YouTube Music and
shuttered Google Play Music and there was no way to listen to my music without constant upselling reminders to pay for the full plan. YTM is mostly crap, and has 1/3 of the features of GPM. Google also stopped selling music, so if you wanted to use YTM you had to buy the music elsewhere and "upload it" to YTM, where there (to this day) is no option to edit song info (title/album/song number/etc).
To make matters worse, they
modified their previous Google Photos policy (which was unlimited high-resolution photo storage for free), essentially killing it, which means you'd have to pay for more storage above a paltry 15GB (you also share your Gmail storage with this allotment). They lured people in with the unlimited policy, then ripped the rug out from under.
It was clear to me Google only made useful features to bring people to their platform with no real intention to support them long-term. The only things really left that they've had longer than 10 years are google search, translate, and YouTube.
Apple, over the last couple years, has really closed the gap on some of the features that Android had the advantage on (widgets,
app library, Apple Maps improvements, picture-in-picture, OLED, etc).
I was using the Moto Z Series Phones (I had the
Z2 Play, then the
Z4) because they were the last phone in the great frontier of phones with "removable storage". They accomplished this through Moto Mods, and it was a great interface, until they shuttered that line as well. After that, no one on the market had anything streamlined to expand battery capacity of a phone (without a chonky battery case or having to be tethered to a charger).
Enter Apple and Magsafe. That was when I decided to switch. I'm all in now!
P.S. I was also the only member of my family on both sides that didn't have an iPhone. So I was "that guy" that caused the green bubbles, lol.
