I've owned multiple Android phones starting with the Nexus S, Nexus Galaxy, various Samsung and LG devices but I'll never forget my experience with the Nexus 5. After a poor experience with an LG phone, I decided enough was enough. I dropped a bunch of money for a brand new Nexus 5 on day 1 of release. I swore not to mess with the phone, (no root, no custom roms, nothing) because I was tired of unexpected surprises from my previous phones and just assumed that since I was not following the mainline it was my fault.

Well one day when prepping for a life changing trip across Europe, I received an upgrade to the latest Android. I just went ahead and updated and then went on the trip. Little did I know, there was a bug in the firmware such that all video recordings were put through some sort of audio filter. That bug essentially garbled all the audio of all video recordings. I only realized to my utter horror after getting back that all my videos were ruined. I couldn't believe that Google didn't properly test basic functionality and released this garbage update. During the trip my friend had an iPhone 5 and it continually lasted her through the day. Meanwhile my Nexus was running low after 1-2 hours screen on time. It was a constant headache that I never realized before because before this trip I always just took the phone to work where there would be a charger and then back home where there would be a charger. I never realized that real world battery life of this phone was utter garbage.

EDIT: I also want to add that I recall watching a bunch of reviews of this phone by the "tech vloggers" and I am dumbfounded as to how they praised this phone or only lightly criticize things like the battery life. I received a totally false impression of this phone before purchasing. This experience basically put me off of tech vloggers as well. I still watch them but only for a cursory view on a product I am already considering getting. Looking back at MKBHD and others after dropping this phone I am just disgusted that I felt like I was duped.

After I got back I was fuming for a while over what had happened. I asked about this on the Nexus5 and Android forums and was met with a lot of hostile responses when I complained about how badly Google messed this up. I just couldn't stop thinking about my friend's iPhone 5. I never bought an Apple product in my life because I was conditioned to believe that they are just lifestyle devices for dumb people with too much money. I took a risk and ordered a pre-owned iPhone 5S. WOW what a night and day difference. This phone lasted me another 4 years and caused me to fall in love with phones again. I never realized that I was unconsciously avoiding having to use my Nexus5. With the iPhone I looked forward to using it.

This was a gateway drug to me taking a chance on an Macbook. I really wanted to continue using a *nix based environment but I HATED the constant challenges with keeping my Ubuntu environment going and the the equally toxic Linux community (I bet the terrible Android community overlaps with Linux).

I took the risk on a Macbook and there was moment where I felt like my mind jettisoned some dead weight. I could finally just walk away from both communities and not have to depend on them when my system/phone messed up. I occasionally load the latest Ubuntu/Ubuntu MATE/Linux Mint on a spare PC, find that some serious bug either didn't get fixed or reintroduced and then put it aside for another year. I'm not sure how to explain this feeling but Apple has given me the freedom to "not" be a part of the Linux/Android ecosystem and that freedom is the most valuable thing they provide.

I always dread whenever Google pushes an update to any of their products. I try my best to use extensions to remove their web based updates but sometimes I don't have a choice for their web based products. They have pushed so much useless garbage onto me over the years that I utterly despise their engineering groups. The latest screwup is "Reading Lists". Like come on man, Bookmarks worked perfectly fine! They had to muck up bookmarks?! Now I am stuck setting a flag to disable it(and repeat every time Chrome updates or I switch computers).

I can't fathom how a company of Google's stature has such a poor design and QA culture. There must be a lot of grifters who have spent so much time trying to get through their tough interviews such that all they know well is how to pass those interviews but not actually how to make great products.