I've used Android for over 10 years — I'm switching to an iPhone 12 Mini

This story was originally published 2021/05/26 10:22am PDTon May 26, 2021 and last updated 2021/05/27 7:33am PDTon May 27, 2021 . 

Over a long weekend in Los Angeles, I walked into the Apple Store in the Century City Mall to buy an iPhone... and swiftly walked right back out because I didn't have an appointment to buy said iPhone. I went back to my car, defeated, with an appointment four hours later that day in virtual hand. I then had a classic "I'm an idiot" moment. I opened the browser on my Galaxy S21 Ultra, bought the iPhone on Apple's website, and set it for pickup at the Apple Store I'd just been to an hour from now. I wandered the mall (I bought coffee and shoelaces, if you must know, and I know you really mustn't), and then wandered back up to the Apple Store for my Very Official Pickup Appointment, which involved me telling the nice man at the door I was here for my phone, someone going to the back of the store, grabbing a phone (which was quite assuredly there and available hours earlier), and handing it to me. I didn't even have to actually go inside the store myself. Efficiency! Anyway, I now had an iPhone 12 Mini — a purple one, of course — and it is here I meet you, just a few days into my latest Apple journey.

This isn't my first iPhone, and it certainly won't be my last. But it might be the one I actually stick with. Three and a half years ago, I bought an iPhone X (which actually was my first iPhone). I also had an iPhone 11 Pro Max (that I used with an Apple Watch), though I didn't really write about it. Neither survived stints as my primary phone for very long — I simply found the aggravations, the annoyances, and the incompatibilities with my various workflows to be too cumbersome to be worth enduring for the sake of content. But in the intervening time since my last iPhone adventure, my job, the ways I do it, and the ways I communicate have changed. (And while I won't spoil any big surprises here today, so too will some things for our readers — stay tuned.)

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