well yes, this is the real world and you have to make tradeoffs; privacy apparently isn't important enough to you the differences are more than window dressing

well yes, this is the real world and you have to make tradeoffs; privacy apparently isn't important enough to you the differences are more than window dressing; one company is an advertising company and the other isn't. One company's messaging platform is only encrypted in transit to the company; the other's is architected so they can't read your messages. Again, I'm not claiming apple is perfect on privacy, but they are better than google.