The reality is for most users iOS is superior from a privacy and data collection standpoint. Conflating YOUR ability to gain root access with the business model of the parent company is comical.

I run an iOS device and if I chose to run an android it would need to be stock android as my day job necessitates I be on a standard issue off the shelf device. Stock android is insanely invasive and with googles business model being based on harvesting user data it’s not a company I elect to use.

For the record I was an android user for years and I used to hate iPhones before I started using one and then I realized it’s actually a superior experience most of the time. Tech bro super geeks will be like “but bro i can run custom ROMS” cool bro do it; it’s not like you are auditing the code or really diving deep into who made that ROM, they are just putting their trust in another 3rd party they see as trustworthy. Whether that turns out to be the right decision or not time will tell.

Google is trying to DRM the entire web experience, and they are making moves to neuter the neutrality of AOSP, but please tell me more about how it’s superior.