Slim Unfortunately (but also fortunately for us iOS users), you're both incorrect. On iOS, if you want to call someone from iMessage, you just hit the little Video Camera icon in the top right from the conversation view, and choose FaceTime Audio (or Video)
Looks like this is the last straw you cling to after everything else was debunked. You can talk semantics about what "baked in" means, but what about all the other privacy invasive things one has to endure on an iPhone when it comes to protecting your data against big tech, e.g. Apple themselves?
Your wrong ideas have been called out many times here, you either reflect on it and become smarter or you stick to your cognitive dissonance. What's annoying to me and probably others is that you effectively harm people by spreading misinformation. Why not showing the facts and let people make their own decision?
I can come up with a lot of good reasons in favor of an iPhone. Security, simplicity, eco system, convenience, peer groups, status, design, etc.. They are all valid and I wouldn't criticize anyone on iOS that intentionally chooses these reasons over privacy and extended security that one would get on GOS. Many of my peers do and sometimes I envy them for the functionality they have between Apple devices.
n3t_admin Okay, but you believe Apple, a profit driven company that will collaborate with every government around the world, advertisers, Google (out of all!) and actual regimes vs. a completely open source project, where you can verify any claim they make yourself.
That's weird.
Good point. Apple takes a lot of money every year to allow Google track iPhone users. Then turns around and claims "iPhone = privacy" to their user base, even hiding the true privacy policy behind a nice marketing page of not legally binding claims.