> Ca 2013 was the release of the Nexus 5, arguably the first really usable android smartphone.
What a strange statement. I was late to the game with a Nexus S in 2010, and it was really usable.
Define usable. Imho before Nexus 4 everything was crap, Nexus 4 barely was enough (4x1.4 GHz), Nexus 5 (4x2.2GHz) plus software at the time (post-kitkat) was when it was really ready for mainstream
Privacy wasn’t really a concern because most people didn’t have the privacy eroding device yet. In the years following the Nexus 5 is where smartphones went into geometric growth and the slow realization of the privacy nightmare became apparent
Imho I was really excited to get a Nexus 4 at the time, just a few short years later the shine wore off and I was horrified at the smartphone enabled future. And I have a 40 year background in computers and understand them better than 99 out of 100 users – if I didn’t see it, I can’t blame them either