Certainly made me happy about my wife and mother using iPhones. Maybe they'll start to listen to me :)
That said, I think the downside is still the walled garden. If Apple F/OSS their OS and let people modify it, and load applications outside the app store, I'd consider changing.
Until then, Lineage without Google apps is still a nicer experience than the walled gardens. For example, the Nexus 6 is still maintained (2014). It even recently got updated to 18.1 which is Android 11! Amazing.
Edit: Wow the Note3 and the LG G2 are still supported, too! They're from September 2013!
That said, I think the downside is still the walled garden. If Apple F/OSS their OS and let people modify it, and load applications outside the app store, I'd consider changing.
Until then, Lineage without Google apps is still a nicer experience than the walled gardens. For example, the Nexus 6 is still maintained (2014). It even recently got updated to 18.1 which is Android 11! Amazing.
Edit: Wow the Note3 and the LG G2 are still supported, too! They're from September 2013!