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For what it's worth, one of my kid's picked up a cheap Android phone as a replacement for his old iPod Touch 3 years ago. In his opinion, the sound quality sucked and it took less than a year for the battery life to start dropping like a paralyzed falcon. Otherwise, the tools for managing music, podcasts, etc. on it made iTunes look great. Then there was the interfacing to his car by having to plug in an audio cable with no controls he could use while driving. Next up, we had the updates which despite the manufacturer's promises never did arrive.

I've owned cheap and I've owned expensive. For the most part, I've found you get what you pay for.

My laptop was considerably more that $100 but it was money well spent since the majority of the tools I use need CPU cycles, disk space and RAM like it was free. All I can say is the cost was worth it for me. I will admit the ability to create, manage and run multiple virtual machines is a bit of a niche market but for me, it's a necessity.

My current Android tablet was a bit cheap (Lenovo M8 HD) but works well as a replacement for my old Google Nexus 7 (2013).

As for my phone, considering the security issues that plague Android—you do keep up with the CVEs? In 2020, Android had 859 CVEs while iOS had 308, moving on to 2021, Android had 572 CVEs while iOS had 365. So far in 2022, Android has had 250 CVEs while iOS has had 43. So in the last 28 months, Android has had 1681 CVEs while iOS has 716 CVEs.

I won't get into the millions of apps deleted from their app stores by both Google and Apple though Apple's list was very heavy on apps that did not have a privacy policy while Google was heavy on apps with dangerous permissions. Admittedly, Google didn't even have a requirement for a privacy policy until April, 2022.

And yes, I'm one of those people who worries about security both for my personal and corporate devices. Zero trust is where it's at.