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If you have the money for an iPhone and consider privacy as important, why not go with a Pixel/GrapheneOS or another phone with Lineage/Divest?
Someone downvoted you INSTANTLY, that’s fucked up.
I choose iOS because it requires zero messing about. I use like no apps on my phone and want it to just be fast forever with no work. I don’t want to have to think about it at all.
Apple fanboys coming in :) I get your point, iOS is still easier to set up than stock android due to all of the restrictions that it has (I'm a Android main with an iPhone for testing). I am the opposite, I like tweaking everything that I can and can not, main reason why I jailbroke my iPhone, but I do have time to do that while some just want a working system out of the box.
I am the opposite. I want a phone that’s locked down and super secure and requires no fiddling.
Computer? I want to make it mine.
Here is my problem with a nonstandard operating system on a phone.
A rely on it to run my very small business. I don’t want to get blocked by an app I rely on or suddenly have it stop working due to running an unofficial operating system.
So it’s either stock Android or stock iOS. iOS I’d say is more private than Android, so I stick with them.
I don't see how google would block something unless you are rooted. Custom os'es pass all the security checks besides the os integrity one that doesn't affect your daily use.
No they don't, at least not necessarily. I had the xiaomi.eu ROM on my old phone and it broke SafetyN*t checks, and as a consequence at the very least one of my banking apps refused to work (this one I actually need to verify credit card charges in some cases, it's not just a nice to have unfortunately).
I probably would have been better off rooting it since then you can bypass it I think, but I didn't want to have to reapply root after every update.
I’m not worried about Google blocking it but rather the app I use to say, “hey something weird is going on with this phone better block/ban that account.
I know the risk is minimal, but it’s not could be a huge disruption to my income, so it’s just not worth it.