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It does matter because for most people that phone became e-waste around 2020. Iphones released that year got major OS upgrades till 2022 and are still getting security updates.
I do wish Apple was forced to unlock the bootloader, but for 95% of users, their phones get significantly longer support than normal.
So one is potential ewaste (Oneplus with an uninformed user) the other is absolutely ewaste.
Again I really don't see your point?
Mate, I even lowballed the 95% number. It's probably closer to 98-99% of smartphone users that want nothing to do with custom ROMs.
This is coming from a person who has used them on every single Android I've owned (including an Oneplus).
So there's a 98% chance of a mainstream Android phone becoming ewaste within 2-3 years (admittedly, flagships now can get longer support because of pressure from Apple). If you think your iPhone is slow after 5 years, you can literally still sell it. There's still a market for it, and it'll continue getting at least security updates for a while. Some people report phones getting slow, but you know what? It's a minority. Plus once you wipe it of all your shit when you sell it, it'll be way faster again lol
So no, Apple isn't perfect (if they were, they'd let you flash other operating systems), but first party support is still more important to 99% of people than third party support is. I keep my OP 7 Pro around because it can run Android 15 smooth as hell and I've got an app I want to develop eventually, but I can't use it as my main phone these days (yay play integrity API) and on the custom ROM the battery drains pretty fast despite the phone not even having a SIM card in it and being used fairly little.
The oldest iPhone to get a security update this year is the 6s. It came out in 2015. From the company most hated for planned obsolescence. My last Android phone, the OP 7 Pro, released in 2019, got its last security update in 2022 or 2023, I forgot the exact date. Plus it took me hours to chase down the exact stock ROM I had to flash to downgrade the OS and get the bootloader unlocked last year. Oneplus had killed the downloads on their website, I ended up finding some on someone's google drive and some through wayback machine I believe. Don't remember which one actually worked in the end. This is NOT something a normal person would want to go through, I have ADHD and had more important work to do, which is why I ended up flashing my phone lol