At least you can side load the Parler APK with an Android phone and you're not directly supporting Apple's gestapo tactics. Google and Apple are openly engaging in anti-trust behavior with their app stores. It has nothing to do with "protecting the public" BULLSHIT it's about censorship of Conservative voices.
Yes, you could jailbreak an iPhone but Apple profits from the sale of the iPhone with slave labor. An android can be had in several different manufacture's flavors. For heaven's sake I shouldn't have to say don't buy a Google phone.
These are just some more of the smaller things the can be done to hit them where it hurts. We have the money, we have the power both intellectually and with our armaments.
Google does FAR more spying with their platform than Apple.
While I agree on the App Store portion, unless you’re willing to completely wipe your device and installed something like Graphene OS without ANY play services, it’s a lost cause.
I switched from a Pixel to an iPhone for that reason. As soon as I started turning off several areas of Googles privacy settings, my phone started breaking in various ways app wise. They make it so it’s incredibly difficult to not have your data being collected without breaking key components, like Android Auto.
It's about Apple's hardware sales, kill them, it takes a herculean effort to rid oneself fully of either Android or IOS I agree.
So you think the highly praised apple is not spying on you more or the same as Android? They know alot of people are going to get parlor after what they did thats why they took it down. Do you think many people know what Parlor is? They are a threat to Twitter and they know that because they are spying on you
Apple does not do it to the degree Google does. This has been proven by many security experts. You can easily tell by how much outgoing data is coming from your phone using packet sniffing.
That said, no, both companies can’t be trusted. However if you use a phone for business good fucking luck getting away with anything that isn’t those two companies. No common joe is going to root their phone and install Graphene OS, or go buy a privacy phone.
Right now Apple is the lesser of two evils.
Oh and it's not that hard to switch to an Android, I did it several years ago and it was rather easy to do and learn. Honestly I'll never go back to the POS overpriced iPhone. For less money you can have seriously powerful Android phone.
I'm just saying take the iPhone profits away for now. Not everybody is capable of only using a flip phone. It's not about the spying either, they both engage in that.
No sense tossing your working phone now, just when it comes to NEEDING a new one.
Trade my iPhone for a Google phone--bad to worse.
Get a flip-phone.
You don't have to buy a Google phone, I have a Note 10 and will never go back to the locked down Apple bullshit phone.
Note 10 still is Google. Nearly ALL Android phones run Google Services as the very core of the Android OS. You cannot get away from it.
Never used a cuck phone. They are for 16 year old school girls that want to look cool with their 500 dollar apple watch and I'm sure their parents are highly in debt. Because I know a few dads out there paying it monthly 🤔
True all that, however if I had to try to do my job in high tech without the evil of a smartphone right now I'd be out of work, left behind by more agile users of technology. That includes devices I easily access with it, I'm in, I'm out several factors quicker than with a laptop. And then I'm still stuck in a Windoze world. You can never fully escape the evils if you work in high tech.