Minority report: I will likely just switch to an iPhone, despite my typical gripes with Apple.
I've always seen my smartphone as a tool that doesn't do "much" (compared to a "real" computer) but can be relied on to always do what I need, whereas the inverse is ~true for my Linux desktop. (Think "bank app" versus "running Photoshop.")
By this metric, the only thing that historically ranked Android above iOS for me - even despite all the Google concerns - was sideloading and general openness.
Now that that's basically gone, I may as well move to a mobile OS that at least pretends to give a damn about my privacy.
I've always seen my smartphone as a tool that doesn't do "much" (compared to a "real" computer) but can be relied on to always do what I need, whereas the inverse is ~true for my Linux desktop. (Think "bank app" versus "running Photoshop.")
By this metric, the only thing that historically ranked Android above iOS for me - even despite all the Google concerns - was sideloading and general openness.
Now that that's basically gone, I may as well move to a mobile OS that at least pretends to give a damn about my privacy.