Sorry I am late replying. I was in the market for a phone, not an OS. I have no interest in learning and maintaining the skillset needed to change the OS on my phone.
I need a phone with robust support and good warranty. At the time I bought my iPhone 10S, it was a good choice, and I could even buy it locally to me. I was unaware of any option that would offer those things, was generally available, and didn't run Android (with Google Apps) or iOS.
iOS is a closed platform, but this is the only obvious negative thing about it, privacy-wise. You can opt out of every single cloud thing that ships with the phone, and most are even opt-in (for example, iCloud and Apple accounts in general). The phone ships with a robust suite of productivity apps, a modern web browser that is kept up to date, and many privacy options. And usually, opting out of something doesn't break some other random other feature on the phone for no reason. (I recently saw a recording of how you cannot have Google search installed on Android and refuse to share your call logs with it. Why? There are no such restrictions on anything on iOS, as far as I have found.)
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Sorry I am late replying. I was in the market for a phone, not an OS. I have no interest in learning and maintaining the skillset needed to change the OS on my phone.
I need a phone with robust support and good warranty. At the time I bought my iPhone 10S, it was a good choice, and I could even buy it locally to me. I was unaware of any option that would offer those things, was generally available, and didn't run Android (with Google Apps) or iOS.
iOS is a closed platform, but this is the only obvious negative thing about it, privacy-wise. You can opt out of every single cloud thing that ships with the phone, and most are even opt-in (for example, iCloud and Apple accounts in general). The phone ships with a robust suite of productivity apps, a modern web browser that is kept up to date, and many privacy options. And usually, opting out of something doesn't break some other random other feature on the phone for no reason. (I recently saw a recording of how you cannot have Google search installed on Android and refuse to share your call logs with it. Why? There are no such restrictions on anything on iOS, as far as I have found.)