I feel like a boomer in my 20s with the fact that I fucking despise having to pay 30-40 dollars a month just so some guy from work can reach me and tell me I need to work extra hours. Everything and everyone else I can contact online using my work's PC or my personal laptop. It's also dogshit-garbage because it's getting to the point where most services entirely give up on their desktop/browser ports or websites because they just assume people are going to use their phone.
Instagram was like this for a long while. Indeed recently removed their "distance" feature and other filter features from their desktop version. Reddit is another example. Enshittification of the internet to put it all on a phone is awful.
I pay about $20/no for my phone service with a small phone company Ting. It's not unlimited data, but I don't need that. Never had a problem with them. They use T-Mobile as the network.
I don't really understand the devotion some people have to brands. Apple doesn't care about you. Google certainly doesn't.
I'm not on Ting anymore because I use too much mobile data but when I spent most of my time on wifi, I definitely loved it. Their customer service was always amazing and if you are the type who uses basically zero mobile data, or are willing to pay a premium for good customer service, I would highly recommend them! I don't know if it's still the case but when I was a customer, there wasn't a phone tree, you called a number and got straight to a human, sometimes you'd spend a minute or two on hold but never that long.
throwing a phone, whether it's an apple brand or a robot brand or even a linus brand, on a window will yield the same result. it's a phone. it's a fucking phone. why cause a war over it? the companies want money, not a verbal equivalent to an indentured servitude towards the fact that you used competitor's product. you switched phones? ok cool, just don't shove that "iphone better" down my throat i had that experience for too many times, especially with my inlaw