iOS is closed source, yes. From my perspective, so is every other mobile OS. I'm not going to take on the effort involved in manually installing my own firmwar

iOS is closed source, yes. From my perspective, so is every other mobile OS. I'm not going to take on the effort involved in manually installing my own firmware that'd been built from verified sources. You could argue that's simple laziness on my part, but, for the fast majority of people, they simply lack the ability to do otherwise. So, while I can read some version of the Android source code, I still can't be sure of exactly what code is actually running on my device. I have to place some trust in the vendor. So, who would I rather trust: The company that took the risk of publicly standing up to the US Government over a privacy issue where even public opinion was at best only arguably on their side, and that boots 3rd parties off of its platform if they're caught trying to siphon users data without permission? Or the company that happily collaborates with surveillance states, makes most its revenue by engaging in surveillance capitalism, and encourages other companies to do the same? That said, if anyone wants to see about bringing FirefoxOS back to life, that'd be cool.