• MSids@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’m sure we all have a different perception, but my current view is that Google sells you a phone that they need to push ads and harvest vast amounts of data from you in order to make money on the phone, and Apple somehow needs to do this less.

    Which company do you feel takes privacy more seriously? From what I understand, Google primarily makes their money from advertising.

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      1 day ago

      I’ve never owned an iPhone, but I 100% agree with you. The reason I choose android is because of the freedom to use my phone how i want (for the most part).

      Apple is a walled garden, but their security is good, they’re not an advertising company in the same way google is and don’t have as much of an incentive to harvest and sell your data. If android is going to be a walled garden like iOS, I trust apple more than i do google and If in the future I can’t find a phone that has all the features i want anyway, then i may as well just get an iPhone.

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        1 day ago

        Agreed across all points. Android’s main advantages after the changes go through with side loading will be:

        1. choice of manufacturer and
        2. the still-deeply-flawed-but-far-superior implementation of a work profile in Android.

        I love being able to press one button and have all of my containerized work apps shut off. It is also quite nice that a remote wipe from M365 could be limited to the work app container rather than the entire phone.