Mobile phones aka cellphones - what's your poison ?

@helenS CWLN 8-) Yep. I know people who are completely 'embedded' in the Apple 'ecosystem' of i-things and I think that's great in some ways. Supposedly the inter-operability is something that Apple's phones and computers and tablets are good at. I don't like Apple's closed-minded approach to Ios for it's phones - just my personal view.

@butterflybaby75 I use a Mac because I need a machine which runs under a Unix-like OS. The main program I work with is an xterm terminal emulator.
I bought an iPhone simply because I am happy with the Mac. The last Mac I had (a MacBook Air) lasted for 11 years (!) before it had to be replaced by a new one.

@helenS MS-DOS was based on CP/M. And the Windows NT core is still used in a lot of industrial systems that run 'embedded' Windows as their main control system.

@helenS I like my iPads😀

@TheSirfurryanimalWales People at my work are i-fans.

@ArishMell Yes nobody called them cellphones or cellular networks here in Oz, but the meaning is the same.

@exexec I don't know how prices compare but my basic portable 'phone cost about £40 (5 years ago now) and is on PAYG so no service-charge. I reckon it costs me less than about £30/year in calls and occasional, brief texts.

My broadband service (for Internet-linked PC and land-line 'phone) is rather pricier though - typically £35/month I think.

BT (my ISP) tried to flog me what it calls its "Halo" service, which is designed for those who use the Internet for massive entertainments services for which a mere telephone, even a so-called "smart"-phone, would be ridiculous. It is very costly, I do not need it, and I refused it!

@ArishMell I pay a lot for Internet service on cable. My phone is about as cheap as possible in the U.S.

@exexec I see - separate billing? I have the cheapest service they offered, but to do that it makes up for free weekend and evening calls by expensive weekday daytime fees. Luckily I don't need make calls during the day very often.

I have the P30 pro... Its a brilliant phone but sadly i can't get a new one from my provider because they dropped Huawei due to the problems over the last couple of years... @antonioioio

@SW-User Interesting - I forget there's a whole subset who buy a phone based around it's imaging capabilities not for it's core function (as a phone and messaging device).