In what ways? Apple, IMHO, has been jumping on every proverbial band wagon. And some of its 'better intended' changes like ATT seem only to have been to stifle competition while they set up their own solution.
Well, the alternatives is Android and... not really much else, for a full-featured smartphone. Say what you will about Apple, they're not perfect, but they have a better track record w.r.t privacy than Google in every way.
I'm not saying I like what Apple is doing here, but I trust Google a lot less with my data.
Once we grow up as a nation and legalize competing app stores on native Android and iOS you can try to make this point
However, the alternatives are currently illegal, so your point doesn't hold
Then they're not really alternatives, are they?
technically jailbreak stores count, but not practically comparable
Only if you hate digital freedom
In what ways? Apple, IMHO, has been jumping on every proverbial band wagon. And some of its 'better intended' changes like ATT seem only to have been to stifle competition while they set up their own solution.
Well, the alternatives is Android and... not really much else, for a full-featured smartphone. Say what you will about Apple, they're not perfect, but they have a better track record w.r.t privacy than Google in every way.
I'm not saying I like what Apple is doing here, but I trust Google a lot less with my data.
There are ways to have full featured smartphones without Google, like Graphene OS.
I am not aware of any alternatives that exist for Apple devices though
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I think that may depend a lot on just what you're used to.
Having never been in there, I can't imagine buying in now.