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It would be very similar to the Wayne Industries mobile phones from The Dark Night, listening to everything and building a database.

Did you mean “echo chamber”?

The problem with restricting the nutbags to one platform with no one calling out their bullshit, Is that they start to believe their own lies.

He did restore faith that George W Bush decision to finish reading a children’s book when the planes were crashing into the trade centre was the best choice.

CarPlay (and Android Auto) are designed to only interact with the InCar Entertainment hardware as a display, HID input and limited ancillary hardware. It pushes Video to the display and pulls GPS data, Voice, touch and button inputs. Apple actually dictate that the ICE system cannot store any data except connectivity (Bluetooth connection keys), everything else stays on device.

I am not going to go as far as say that OEM and aftermarket ICE aren’t able to extract information through CarPlay, and I will acknowledge that they will try to get user data through their own interfaces for the benefit of their own interfaces. I would never trust an OEM that forces users to not use CarPlay or Android Auto (ehem, GM).

I am confident that the only reason GM are introducing their ICE platform (codenamed “Edsel”) and blocking CarPlay and Android Auto is because they believe they will be able to profit from selling user information to data brokers. I am also confident that Edsel will be just as disastrous for GM as its namesake was for Ford.

If Apple really wanted to send a message, they would suspend the Twitter App (I can’t bring myself to call it by the stupid CyberTruck name) from the App Store.

Maybe after another 11 months of this…

You have “done your own research”. It would be interesting to see your list of unverified anecdotes.

My list of unverified anecdotes shows that Apple have engineered privacy into the core of all their systems, almost to a fault.

If you don’t have backups of your data and have not disabled their default security features, you have no chance of restoring your data in the case of device failure. If you die and don’t give permission for your loved ones to access your data, that data is lost.

I will quite happily pay a reasonable price for the privilege of avoiding ads.

I understand why people block ads, even though they are a a free tier, even if I don’t agree with it.

The fact that the cost of YouTube Premium almost doubled overnight is making me rethink my ethics, when my current subscription is up for renewal, I will be reassessing whether to cease watching YouTube, watch YouTube with ads or determine another way of supporting content creators.

Let us analyse it critically;

• change of API policies resulted in death of third-party apps.
• exodus of content creators due to inaccessibility of official Apps and user interfaces.
• exodus of high-value users due to lack of high-value content.
• exodus of medium-value users due to increase is low-value content and ads.
• increase in toxic behaviour due to lack of moderation and encouragement of antisocial behaviour.
• fediverse (and Reddit) attracting content creators and users with better (more insular) communities and content.
• loss of brand equity with bizarre name change.

I’m honesty surprised that it only tanked by 56%.

Also, pay attention, u/spez!

He overpaid for it so that was what it was worth.

Analogies are always terrible but here are some analogies for the options you are offering.

Most people live in cities and suburbs. Downtown and Suburbia are the safe places, heavily policed and everyone is expected to conform. There are also other parts of Cities that are not heavily policed by government enforcement; they are policed by Organised crime.

Then there are people who live in the country. Some are Farmers or other Primary Industry workers, some are Moneyed individuals who own hobby farms or ranches, some live in Cultural Communes or Religious Retreats/Compounds.

The Apple Ecosystem is for the city dwellers in comfortable environments. They won’t mind certain restrictions because they know that they benefit from the security of those restrictions. Google Pixels also fall into this community, but only because there is always that weird person at the dinner party who is a little bit different, but they are still safe to be around.

The Aftermarket Android market is that part of town that your parents told you to stay away from. You can go there if you like, you might even have a good time taking drugs or spending time with sex workers, but you run the risk of getting a horrible VD or bad fit cut with drain cleaner. Even if you are street-smart, there may be someone who is smarter than you who can get past your defences.

Out in the country, people aren’t as reliant on technology, they are too busy doing “real work”. They have a phone that makes phone calls (when they have reception), take photos and send text messages. These people have Dumb Phones.

In communes and religious communities that are very insular, there is usually one person (or group of people) in charge that dictates what everyone does. They can usually spend the time to tweak their systems to best suit their community members, while their community members are busy growing food, repairing shelters and doing the menial work it takes to make a small community successful. These are the Linux-on-Phone users.

I would love to be a Linux-on-Phone user, but since I work 8-5 every day, and if I want a management role, I would need to continue working from home after hours, I use an iPhone and UniFi home network. I’m not stupid enough to use an ISP supplied router, I don’t even have time to roll-my-own-Linux or BSD-based network using something like pfSense.

Not everyone has that luxury, even those who are technically capable of removing it.

I don’t want to get into an Apple/Google / Know-Your-Product debate, but how do you know you removed all the Google Crap?

You only way of knowing what is on your phone is if you start from scratch with something like Ubuntu Touch and compile from source; even then, how do you know the manufacturer doesn’t have an embedded “phone home” chip?

At some point you have to decide whether to avoid Crapware completely or go with just the crapware from someone you can trust.