Yeah Stock Android might not be that privacy friendly, but it being opensourced means I can use something like AOSP if I so may desire and sideload all apps I n

Yeah Stock Android might not be that privacy friendly, but it being opensourced means I can use something like AOSP if I so may desire and sideload all apps I need. For me, control over my devices is more important. I do not want to trust the words of a random company. Ofcourse there are a few issues with this approach, it reduces the security of the device (Unlocked firmware), Some apps depend on Google Play services and will refuse to run, (usually it's the games depending on Google Play Games). And using any Google Service (gmail, youtube) requires me to install google play services. (Which honestly defeats the whole prupose). Apple's ecosystem is quite "nice" and just works out of the box and they have shown themselves to be trustworthy in the past. I just don't want to be locked to their ecosystem.