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Exedorable On multiple occasions (weight of a device, support, features, etc) I've found this to be a real challenge. BlackBerry fans, no less, seem to dismiss clear (and almost unique) benefits as if the "market" robbed them of an ability to enjoy or even appreciate them.
Most things that I use my phone for (sms, email, calls, browsing, bills, calendar, YouT, music, notes, pics, etc) work on both my Priv and KEYᵒⁿᵉ. I can quick reply to messages (straight from notif shade, w/ out opening the app) even on marshmallow. I can't do pic w/ in pic, but find that I *very* rarely ever use this (I've disabled it in most apps on KEYᵒⁿᵉ, which could do it before the iPhone X). Sure there's lag, but every phone lags at times. Sure there's glitches/errors, but I've had interesting bugs/crashes on everything from the Razer phone (one of the earliest to carry more Ram than my pc) to budget moto's all the way up to Samsung flagships. And the obsession w/ "performance" is an odd one, because just how fast (which before very long won't even be that fast) do you need your phone to be? Most likely, unless you're a content creator online, you're not even utilizing 60% of your toolbelt tbh. It's like setting a bar for any car that cuts off below 120mph, or any car w/ less than 300hp, and dismissing anything that doesn't hit above that benchmark (while most people I know, and I'm sure most people you know, don't need to even reach it/want to reach it). Even many that do, rarely access it.
During the time when I owned a note10 (and 10+) I tried to really explore the feature set that came w/ it: and one of the stats it tracked was notifications. I'd get between 200-500 a day, usually in that range (obvi, lower numbers on my off days). Now of course, some of those operations would be identical - pull down notif shade to see new email, tap on new email, open w/ in gmail app and etc. But for all the times I've had to chat w/ people (especially at work) and actually use my phone for communication, and this may have been who knows let's say 167 times on one particular Friday - that's 167 instances where a key press or a key hold turned into 4 operations through various submenus. Once I got a bit more used to side panels, for some of those operations 4 steps became 3. But that's a difference between doing 167 things vs having to do 501 in the case of me using side panels - or 668 operations on other androids w/ out side panels. That's not the *s m a l l e s t* difference; that's not simply negligible or unnoticeable.
And many, many (many!) people are in situations similar to mine: for ex, I just ordered a moto g7 plus in case my BlackBerry devices literally stop working mid-day (as happened when ATnT dumped me lol, serious props to T-Mobile) because it was 149 bucks new. Doesn't seem reasonable for me to spend flagship prices for something that turns 100 button presses into 400 swipes, while aggravating me every day, all day long w/ endless typos.