A key difference would be that I don't pay for Gmail, thus I pay through my data and ads. If I want a paid email solution that doesn't harvest my data, or serv

A key difference would be that I don't pay for Gmail, thus I pay through my data and ads. If I want a paid email solution that doesn't harvest my data, or serves me ads such things exist. Also, having any OS collect your data is an incredible privacy violation, since, Operating systems, by their very nature have incredibly overarching access to essentially everything you do. And then, on top of it all, they serve ads. Essentially, so far, software was either "sold", ad supported, or data supported, or both ad and data supported. Windows is trying to triple tap. And again, the OS has access to absolutely everything. Having a platform have access to a slice of your life feels very different from having a platform have access to everything.