False dichotomy. GrapheneOS, LineageOS, you have options on (some) Android handsets. You have no options on iOS. Further, much of Apple's walled-garden ecosystem is closed source.
Apple is HORRIBLE for user privacy, only marginally less horrible than Google. The difference is that Google isn't a tyrant who insists on making devices that MUST run their own OS. Ironically, Pixel devices have some of the best support for flashing other OS's, modded ROMs, rooting, etc.
Privacy is not a one dimensional thing. Just like security, it exists in context, relative to a threat model.
Think about the threat model for an "everyday" person. It is different than an American journalist contacting sources in the United States, which is different than a journalist in Russia or China.
>GrapheneOS, LineageOS, you have options on (some) Android handsets
These are not normal approaches used by the common person. Apple is not horrible for privacy, they simply help prevent certain types of surveillance capitalism.
Apple absolutely is horrible for privacy. To insist otherwise suggests you might either be uninformed, willfully ignorant, falling victim to Apple's sham marketing around privacy, experiencing stockholm syndrome, or an apple employee.
And these are just privacy concerns. This doesn't even begin to delve into the realms of DRM, downgrade prevention, planned obsolescence, dark patterns, censorship, or open collaboration with inhumane, authoritarian regimes.
>To insist otherwise suggests you might either be uninformed, willfully ignorant, falling victim to Apple's sham marketing around privacy, experiencing stockholm syndrome, or an apple employee.
No, it means I'm optimizing for the average user who will not go out of their way to LARP a paranoid opsec level.
The average user's probably got their SSN, DoB, address, full name, employment history, credit card track 2's, passport details, and more spread across multiple breaches, being sold across multiple darkweb markets, precisely because they have zero regard for privacy.
Suggesting that usage of GrapheneOS is "LARP"ing a "paranoid" opsec level is dismissive of the very-real threats facing domestic abuse victims, whistleblowers, journalists & political activists/dissidents in repressive, authoritarian regimes, and countless others.
Just because you live in a safe, privacy-respecting, liberal democracy doesn't mean everyone else does, and it absolutely isn't reasonable justification to demean those who don't by painting them as irrationally paranoid. That's gaslighting real victims who actually have to be concerned about these companies handing out their data to countries that will put them through, in extreme cases, excruciating torture, before killing them or imprisoning them for life.
Not everyone is lucky enough to live your life, so stop assuming your threat model is automatically the "right" one for everyone else, and that any more intensive threat models than yours are inherently "irrational", "unrealistic", or "paranoid".
False dichotomy. GrapheneOS, LineageOS, you have options on (some) Android handsets. You have no options on iOS. Further, much of Apple's walled-garden ecosystem is closed source.
Apple is HORRIBLE for user privacy, only marginally less horrible than Google. The difference is that Google isn't a tyrant who insists on making devices that MUST run their own OS. Ironically, Pixel devices have some of the best support for flashing other OS's, modded ROMs, rooting, etc.