Android isn't the alternative draft to iOS, it is similar in significant properties. Alternatives would be relatively open PC systems for example. That diversity grows with more uncommon operating systems, which are currently endangered by MS secure boot btw, which would put PC in the same boat as mobile systems.
This isn't about favorites, I own Apple devices myself, although only MacOS and I don't expose by ID to Apple. Doing so is a major risk for the case your OS gets compromised.
As with Windows PCs in the past, you become a target with popularity.
With dragnet surveillance I mean that state actors scoop up every source they can get their hand on. It doesn't need justification because they already moved the goalpost to wanting to access encrypted information. Als the other sources aren't even questioned anymore.
This isn't about favorites, I own Apple devices myself, although only MacOS and I don't expose by ID to Apple. Doing so is a major risk for the case your OS gets compromised.
As with Windows PCs in the past, you become a target with popularity.
With dragnet surveillance I mean that state actors scoop up every source they can get their hand on. It doesn't need justification because they already moved the goalpost to wanting to access encrypted information. Als the other sources aren't even questioned anymore.