It may feel good to say it, because you get to offload the responsibility onto consumers rather than the entity committing questionable (but legal) acts, but in

It may feel good to say it, because you get to offload the responsibility onto consumers rather than the entity committing questionable (but legal) acts, but in reality "just don't do X" is never going to affect any sort of change. It's simply shifting blame onto people with no power to do anything. More to the point, you're essentially recommending that everyone pony up $1000+ for an iPhone. None of those lesser known options (or modern dumb phones) are known to the average smartphone user, average people don't know anything about these hardened Android forks, etc. Boycotts are really not very reliable, because most of it is exactly this: just telling people to do a boycott and then stopping there. I know it's not reasonable to expect everyone floating ideas to have a plan for implementation, but when it comes to these kind of boycott suggestions, nobody has a plan. That's why shifting the responsibility onto the consume isn't going to work. You're not going to mobilize near enough people. You know what does work, though? Strong privacy regulations with harsh penalties.