You can turn off icloud in china and your phone is secure (presumably). And apps such as wechat have less abilities to read data on an iphone. Apple had a choi

You can turn off icloud in china and your phone is secure (presumably). And apps such as wechat have less abilities to read data on an iphone. Apple had a choice: icloud in china or leave china. Would chinese citizens be better served if android was the only option? As for data, apple collects less of it. You can verify that with a data request: https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-data-collection-stored-request/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-data-collection-stored-r... And much of their data for apps like maps is anonymized. On what basis can you reasonably equate their data efforts to google's? Everyone needs data, but apple does legitimately seem to take privacy more seriously.