Agreed, I'm taking a bite of the apple when my Nexus 5X gives up the ghost.

• I don't mind subjective build quality, but Android devices are a crapshoot as to whether there is a massive flaw with their design.

The Z Ultra in my flair was great until the stupid USB flap came off because it was attached by a tiny little bit of plastic of the kind that breaks after too many uses. This almost felt like it was intentional in order to nudge people towards a repeat purchase after 2 years without souring them on the brand entirely.

While looking for a new phone, I found out that the Priv has reliability issues, Samsung has Touchwiz, the Nexus 6 has a crap camera, the Nexus 5 has a useless battery, etc etc. I settled for the 5X because its flaws weren't too bad.

But if you just want a good phone, well, tough luck. Not even a Nexus is a guaranteed safe purchase because you just have to hope it doesn't come with the wrong kind of storage or the wrong SoC and Google says "oops, sorry we made your tablet useless, oops, sorry we can't update the phone you bought precisely to get updates, oops".

• Google went down the crapper lately. The issues are become ever more glaring with each passing year. Still no updates for 99% of the phones on the market, still random battery drain that can only be fixed by rebooting, still useless UI changes instead of meaningful improvements.

The Nexus 6 had to wait ages for Nougat for no good reason other than Google being Google and quickly cutting loose any product that isn't a slam dunk success.

The Pixel phones... overpriced, generic, unpolished, and if/when they bomb, expect Google to pull a Nexus 6 and put in the bare minimum of support.

Speaking of bare minimum support, 2 years? Are you kidding me?

Nougat sabotaged my Nexus 5X. When multitasking, it sometimes just locks up while battery capacity is very quickly converted into enough heat to almost reach the Planck temperature and create a kugelblitz around itself.

This solves itself a minute later, during which the phone is completely unusable, and I'm out around 2% battery. Repeat a few times during the day and I don't make it back home.

Why it is harder to get through the day with this thing as opposed to the Z Ultra which has 40% less battery capacity according to Antutu and a much bigger screen is anyone's guess but Google's. Hotfix available? Nope. Gotta focus on dem pixals yo.

It is literally cheaper to buy an iPhone and use it for 4 years instead of buying an Android for half the price and being lucky to use it for the intended 2 years without running into some kind of problem along the way.