One of the very first smartphones I had was the original Iphone. My mother got it as part of a family plan in 07-08. I was still using old 90s cellphones up until 2010. You know, grey brick with no more than text. With the exception of the Razr phone. The red one that saw Bono helping aids patient or whatever a pre live 8 world had going for it? People actually listened to musicians like their opinions mattered and iPhone using shillottes in commercials. I digress.

Anyways, She let me try one of the iPhones. It was a pretty good phone, but flawed. For one, you had to convert film files to edit in windows movie maker. Still my preferred editing experience, but that wasn’t the only major obstacle. Still it was the best in its time frame and much like VHS vs Beta max or DVD, you used what one could get at the time.

I never liked Apple to be honest. My family’s first CPU in 1994 was a Macintosh. Didn’t like that the schools got those crappy technicolors Apples in the mid 90s to early 00s. Always said Apple felt like a computer made for left handed people. Very unintuitive. I also never liked Apple’s local, toxic, lock you into their brand, bullshit.. Apple in my mind was technology made for technology illiterate people. You didn’t have to know anything about technology to use it. Need I mention that I got my first iPod in 2007 and didn’t use it until 2014. If that doesn’t say I hate Apple, I don’t know what will

Post I phone, my friend mentioned androids and how they are basically like Windows of phones. I switched and Android ended up winning me over for a good long while and I would not trust or use an Apple product since.

It’s 2022, Covid stimulus went out. I need a new phone as I’m tired of using my sister’s old phones that she gives me, since she trades up more often than I would and as a waste not, want not type of cheap bastard that I am, I’m all too happy to recycle, since all I need it for is job interviews and net surfing or using Duolingo. So Boost puts out the IPhone SE 2020 edition for free. Woha! An Apple for free? Either Apple is dying post Steve Jobs or there was a catch. No catch, whatsoever. What I got was an amazing phone that allowed me to do one thing I had been aching to do for years, which was shoot video in 24FPS and on top of that, in 4k. Finally technology was catching up to me and what, in my 20s, myself and my brother spent too much money one to get nothing out of it, that was filming gear.

So for the first time since I tried the original iPhone, what, 15 or so years earlier., Apple actually improved their game and most likely thanks to Android for that. Android’s are now mostly garbage that comes with too much bloatware, crippling little gigabytes and horrible support. Apple did a 360 and won me over. It’s now a pleasure to have one and not an idiot millennial trendy kink that they try to force you into. While I don’t have the version of the phone I want, and even though I’m making do with this one, It’s still a damn near prefect phone. If you’re an Apple hater like I was, you might find yourself wondering if it’s worth another look over. Yes it is! I’m more willing to try other Apple products as well. Good on them!

5 out of 5 stars.

-sent from my iPhone 15.