[LG V30 Questions & Answers] schwinn8:
@cmrntnnr - I commend you on not letting the thread devolve into a fight and such... good on you!

It's funny you are considering an iPhone, when it offers few of the advantages of the V30, which is now a 4 year old phone. When comparing to the 12, you get no headphone jack, not even a 1440 screen, no expandable memory, smaller battery and shorter battery life, lower-res cameras, and a much higher pricetag. And that's before considering the limitations in iOS and their terrible "cloud" service they offer (iCloud costs money and does less). I don't get how this is an upgrade in any sense of the word. But, to each their own... I guess.

As for OS updates... the actual feature updates are pointless, honestly. Apple has "trained" people to think these are important, because they require them to get any new features. For example, Siri required an OS update, so did many other "new" things. Google doesn't do that... you get feature updates by the apps, making the OS updates a "nice to have" but not really necessary... I had Google Assistance on my Droid Turbo soon after it was released... I don't ever remember what OS it was on, but it didn't require a further update. In that way, your "old" OS is being supported FAR LONGER than Apple can even do. Hell, I could power my Turbo back up and do everything I do on my current phone without issue... including all the latest apps.

Security updates... ok, a reasonable concern... IMO, only if there's a reasonable threat. I have never heard of any Android phone getting taken over blindly just because it was on the internet. Any threat seems to be from installing malware (get a virus scanner, which is free) which is also a problem on all of Crapple's devices (but harder to fix there). If you're that worried, most issues, again, IMO, are in the kernel, so you can still install a newer kernel on this phone if you wanted, and get most of the way there anyway. So, what's the big deal with missing security updates?

I'm still running Oreo, because I don't need anything Pie offers. My work phone runs Pie and doesn't do anything more than my V30 does. The only reason I'm considering replacement is because the battery is aging (fact of life)... and, if you noticed my posts above, because my wife dropped hers in the tub, so I need to be on the lookout! I could pay to have the battery replaced, but I believe I'll lose IP68, which I need to keep for her... hence the V50 and S10 seem to be interesting for us.

Bottom line, I don't see the logic in going iPhone, other than to make a story here on this thread. And I don't see the problem with the 2 years of support that seems to be "standard" today. I agree, I'd love to see longer support... but going to iPhone isn't going to solve that problem. Just look at how many people have issues trying to update their 3-4 year old phones to the latest - it can be done, but it causes so many problems... most people find it's worse after doing that.

And don't even get me started on the "it just works" BS of Crapple. They have had SO MANY PROBLEMS with their hardware these days. Granted, at times they are giving free repairs on them, but it's not a premium "just works" device at all. If you're lucky, you'll get it fixed for free... if not, you get to pay for it... how's that for service?! I really don't get the blind addiction of anything Crapple...