For instance, I can mount the filesystems on my Android phone on my laptop running Linux and copy music over. Can I do that with an iPhone? Maybe, but probably

For instance, I can mount the filesystems on my Android phone on my laptop running Linux and copy music over. Can I do that with an iPhone? Maybe, but probably have to put up with a lot of Apple garbage, trying to make things "easy" for non-technical people and/or keep you in their ecosystem. I also like that Android uses Linux because I think the proliferation of Linux is good for me. (For various reasons, not that I have a financial stake in it, although I do indirectly due to my technical areas of competence.) In that sense, I prefer that it uses Linux marginally over, say, using FreeBSD, which I would still prefer infinitely more than a proprietary OS.