Our smartphones, operating systems and apps are dominated by Google & Apple. “[…] these two Silicon Valley profit-driven companies decide which apps are or aren’t allowed, and moderate what our mobile software looks like.” says @danlammerhirt from @waag working on the Mobifree project (together with a.o. @efoundation @fdroid @NGIZero @murena @microg @delta
https://waag.org/en/article/why-smartphones-are-key-better-internet/
and if you want to be taken seriously you should rethink your sentences. similar arguments can be made about Apple, that they for example are one of the only players out there (along with Mozilla) to provide an alternate rendering engine. google’s control of the internet is hugely impacted by chrome and android is one of the pillars of that foundation.
Point is, they both have issues but to some (myself included) I do believe that my privacy and security is better served by Apple, despite the walled garden.
Pick your poison.
Just admit your part of a cult and you will have the first step to recovery.
And I did pick my position damn near 20 years ago at this point. I had a couple of old school ipods but my first “smart phone” was a blackberry, my second was also a blackberry and then I moved to android with a phone sized tablet that only had wifi and they nexus after that. I’ve flashed more roms, backed up and restored more data, etc than you have had friends.
You have a nice day now and I will add you to the block list as well.
Well, this is a mature reply. Have a good one.