The average consumer wants a phone with their personal balance of: * Feature * Price * Looks/status Everything else is completely irrelevant. Now, what feat

The average consumer wants a phone with their personal balance of: * Feature * Price * Looks/status Everything else is completely irrelevant. Now, what features and what looks varies over time. But something as intangible as being 'more open' or 'more private' just isn't significant for most people. People on HN care. Average consumers do not. It's too ethereal and meaningless. If a new phone or service had a specific certification, like how IP certifications work for waterproofing, then that might change. If it was certified by a third party that X phone with Y service would never sell your data in Z ways. But without something concrete, it's irrelevant.