Comment by lucb1e

A bit tangential but I'd be honestly curious how many people use iOS and explicitly value their privacy. Everyone has something to hide so we all care implicitly to a certain extent obviously, but for the real nuts (that includes myself), Android is the only OS where you get to both have the freedom to turn things off as you please (at the flip of a setting for most manufacturers, at least) as well as install regular applications. A Linux phone is fun and all, but much less practical.

With iOS you have to either be a leading expert in vulnerability research or hope that someone else finds a serious security issue in your operating system, leave it unpatched, and then exploit it yourself to get proper access and control your device.

I'd trust Apple more than Google to do the right thing any day of the week, but they're not some foundation with a mission. Cutting Apple out of your data is a lot harder on an Apple than it is to cut Google out on Google's platform.