Buying an Android phone from a non-Google manufacturer gives much less money to Google than buying an Apple phone gives to Apple. Most here have the technical s

Buying an Android phone from a non-Google manufacturer gives much less money to Google than buying an Apple phone gives to Apple. Most here have the technical skills to follow that up by installing F-Droid and thereby avoid paying Google anything through the Play Store or ads. Also, the mere fact that that is possible sheds some doubt on the assertion that Google is worse than Apple, at least if we're looking at the user freedoms advocated for by the top-level commenter.