How Apple Finally Won Me Over After 13 Years

Carolly
7 min readFeb 2, 2024

Or, How Google Finally Screwed The Pooch

I got my first smartphone in 2010. I lived in the land of the Blackberry — Ontario’s Tri-Cities area — and the iPhone had also been out for a couple of years. But I didn’t want a Blackberry, and I didn’t want an iPhone; neither was customizable enough for me and so I waited until there was an Android phone that I did want. That phone was the HTC Desire, and it would characterize my smartphone journey for almost a decade and a half.

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Carolly

Writer, musician/producer, trans Bene Gesserit witch.. Nonbinary girl. Lesbian. She/her/elle. Middle age. Officially disabled per the Canadian government.