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.