You're saying mostly the same thing I'm saying :) In my opinion _both_ platforms are awful, for different reasons. Google spies on everything you do, and Apple

You're saying mostly the same thing I'm saying :) In my opinion _both_ platforms are awful, for different reasons. Google spies on everything you do, and Apple has a smaller amount of spying but a very high-walled garden. I've made the choice to hold my nose and continue to use an Apple device for my mobile phone, but I purposely do as little as I can on it and opt to use a general purpose computer as much as possible, where I can run whatever software I want. I have an iPad, but it's collecting dust in the corner, because anything I could do on it can be done better on my Thinkpad running linux or on my Macbook.