The excuse for having an iphone
Since the dawn of mobile service, pagers, dial walkie talkies, brick phones, flip phones, etc, I never bought one, it was always provided for me from by the people I used to work for, I hate Apple, I can't do any serious work on IOS, and I always considered it a fagots choice. But unfortunately the company used only Iphones since their debut on the market, and the one I own now is the last company phone that I had before quitting, so it wasn't really a choice for me. I tried few times to transition to other platforms, but it isn't really possible due to multiple eSIMs and other stuff that cannot be reinstalled, only cloned.
Cannot buy an US HK or Macau version because they don't have the regular SIM, and I need that one too, so it looks like I'll have to pay the premium price somewhere in SEA. Otherwise my choice would have been a Xiaomi, for it's camera performance.