Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

I disagree, I've used a windscreen suction mount with a magnet on it for years across multiple cars and multiple phones and I've been satisfied.

Here's my experience with other methods of securing the mount and securing the phone to the mount.

Mount to car:

1. Clip to vent - unsecured itself from the vent at least once every 3 journeys sending the phone flying into positions either dangerous (behind pedals) or sufficiently hard to reach to be dangerous to retrieve the phone. Phone also can end up restricting access to HVAC controls or radio controls which is annoying.
   
2. Dash mount using suction clamp - Often these are provided with a shiny plastic disc that you stick to your dashboard and then attach the suction mount to the disc. The suction connection works well but the sticky pads or double sided tape to secure the disc to the dashboard become the weak point, often failing after a few months or even weeks. Few cars have a flat enough dashboard surface to stick the disc to effectively, further reducing the reliability of this option.
   
3. Fixed mount - Usually requires screwing a mount to the side of the centre console. Actually too rigid a connection and who the fuck is screwing holes in their centre console in 2022?? I found the suction mounts absorb a bit of vibration and movement, whereas these fixed mounts transmit these direct to the phone causing it to be difficult to read the screen.
   
   

Phone to mount:

1. Cradle - often cheap and flimsy, audibly creaks, liable to fail with little notice, makes plugging the cable into the phone difficult, and limits access to the side buttons or interferes with the side buttons.
   
2. Expanding jaws - Interfere with side buttons, or causes you to have to place your phone in an unstable/unsuitable position in the jaws, just so the jaws don't interfere with the side buttons.