I Traded My iPad for an iPhone 12 Pro Max

Comparing Apples to… other Apples.

At the end of 2020, I thought I had found the perfect phone: the iPhone 12 mini. But alas, it wasn’t meant to be.

The 12 mini I received came down with a serious case of camera problems (you can read about that here), and I ended up returning it.

Now, I’d meant to just buy another one, because I loved the 12 mini. Seriously, I loved it. I loved the small size and… well, that was mainly the reason I loved it. But instead, I took some time to think about what phone I wanted and found myself content to use my back-up device, Google’s Pixel 4a 5G. Surprisingly, that device even ended up working pretty well with all my other Apple products (except for my Apple Watch… but you can read about that here).

I used the Pixel for about a month before I decided that, ultimately, I should get a new iPhone. This wasn’t because the Pixel is in any way a bad phone; in fact, I loved using that device. But even though I was able to make the Pixel work with my MacBook and iPad and whatnot, I found myself looking at different smartwatches to pair with it and different headphones to try to replicate the same magic that AirPods bring to the iPhone, and it just made more sense to just get an iPhone to work with all the peripherals I already had for it (namely…