"The most personal and secure mobile operating system"

Matthai

When we are talking about mobile phones, Apple's marketing says that "iOS is the world’s most personal and secure mobile operating system, packed with powerful features and designed to protect your privacy."

Source: https://www.apple.com/si/iphone-16/specs/

Well, Forbes just published an article "Apple Sells Privacy To Consumers. But It’s Quietly Helping Police Use iPhones For Surveillance."

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/10/09/apple-sells-privacy-to-consumers-but-its-quietly-helping-police-use-iphones-for-surveillance/

Anyway, we all know which OS is the most personal and secure. ;)

lcalamar

Matthai Oh my Gosh!

Apple is just as bad if not worse than anyone else for capturing your data.

They are just better at marketing that they are more private, but the reality is very different.

Bottom line - doesn't matter what device you are using - unless you are on something like GOS - your data is being siphoned off... Applications make it worse - as do multiple accounts, etal.

spammerofspam

There are also researchers who have concluded that Apple sends in a bunch of telemetry stuff no matter how you've configured your phone (i.e., even if you think you've opted out of all telemetry). https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-when-off-app-store-1849757558

Personally, I think trusting Apple to not spy on what you're doing is just as crazy as trusting Google, Microsoft, etc. to do the same. It feels like they're all very much playing the same game.

And I honestly feel like Google gets kind of a bum rap, much more than the deserve. Of the big tech players that want to spy on you, they're one of the only ones that have an ecosystem that's open enough to allow users to strip out all the creepy spying stuff. If Apple is spying on you, it's not like there's a GrapheneOS iOS version (or any other alternative OS). You're just stuck with the spying. Google at least makes it possible to get rid of it.

Rizzler

Android is commonly precieved as less private than iOS because OEMs preinstall their malware onto it. Its a fair criticism, but id like them to rather criticise Samsung, Xiaomi etc. than Android itself.

Rizzler

Apple has more money to gain from gaslighting the public into believing that they "care" about their privacy, than most other companies. And they are very successful at controlling the narrative. If they would care, they would enable Advanced Data Protection by default, but they like having server-side access to user data..