I'm aware of the constraints being different on a mobile vs. a laptop. But that is no reason to pivot your arguments from "But Apple gives you so much security

I'm aware of the constraints being different on a mobile vs. a laptop. But that is no reason to pivot your arguments from "But Apple gives you so much security it's okay for you to give up freedom" to "But it's a mobile; Apple can't give you that much security; you'll just have to deal with it". > Again this may be obvious and yet you seem oblivious to it as a consideration, as you expect a better offer, as though there are no constraints and tradeoffs, or you are unaware of them. I'm not oblivious to the tradeoffs of security. I know that if I set a long password it only makes every login that much more tedious. And that's my problem to deal with. But to have no choice, no freedom, no chance of owing your device, in the name of "security", is either unmindful or wilfully ignorant of a manufacturer. ---- You keep saying I'm not a current iOS user so I couldn't possibly see the great things iOS does. I merely doubt it could do anything beyond generally security focused OSes. For example, my current mobile OS has a separate decryption password at boot, scrambles the lock screen numeric layout, compartmentalizes my data, hooks into every way apps can request private data and lets me allow/disallow/fake it, hooks into every way apps can even run and lets me choose which to allow/disallow, and still provides me the freedom to run whatever I want and share whatever data I want with whichever app I want. I'm not dreaming of much more, largely because I already have quite a lot.