iPhone - I really, really, really don’t like Apple as a company, all their absurdly locked-down policies and the fact that Tim Cook thinks he knows better than I do what I should be allowed to do with the devices I own. The only Apple products I like are MacBooks and a few TV shows on Apple TV+. MacBook is: good build quality, OK specs, a Unix-like OS that is hassle-free, so good for my tastes. MacOS is getting more locked-down with every release, though, so in a few years I’ll probably have to switch to something else, maybe the Year of Linux on the Desktop will finally arrive.

Pixel - not available in my country, so they decided they don’t want my money, I respect their decision.

Mainland Chinese brands - I don’t trust them.

So, that basically restricts my choices to either HMD d/b/a Nokia or Samsung. HMD has no flagships and is generally crap, Samsung has flagships and doesn’t suck too bad, so Samsung it is.