welcome to the club. I had the first few iphones to the iPhone4, then went Samsung/Android for years.. Pixel 3 was my favourite model, until I finally decided to come back to iPhone (to an iPhone 12). iOS had matured a lot and apps were supported etc. Oh. and I came back to a mac with the M1 MacBook Air. You can't beat FCP on a Mac!
Similar to my experience. I started with a borrowed iPhone 4, then I quickly purchased my first iPhone, the 4S. It was awesome by that time. Then, after a couple of years, I decided to jump into Android to know what it was like... Got a MotoG 2013, the first one, the one built by Google themselves (Motorola was purchased by Google if I recall correctly). I got a taste of KitKat, then Lollipop. Took ages to get 5.1 after a whole year on Android 5.0, but it finally got updated. The last update, of course.
With that compact Android phone, which was only 4,5”, I met love, and got heartbroken as well. By that time, as a metaphor of my love, the MotoG suffered a drop into the floor, and the screen got shattered in pieces
just like my heart.
Enough of getting unnecesarily romatinc. I decided to start over. I also decided it was time to get back to the Apple ecosystem. By that time, when it wasn’t as usual as it is nowadays, Google asked me my ID card, a scanned copy, to allow me to keep using the Play Store, and until that, they blocked my account. That was the final drop that made me come back to Apple’s arms with strenght. So I got an iPhone SE, the first one, in 2016.
Since then, I’ve been happily on the Apple’s ecosystem, that might not be perfect, but at least I don’t feel my privacy is being constantly violated by Google or FaceBook. Also, their devices are great, by that time, most of Android smartphones kept growing in size, reaching dimmensions that only Thanos could handle with one hand. It was insane (as insane as the current regular iPhone sizes). So my next acquisition, when my SE died, was an awesome iPhone 8. To this day.