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  • Okay, I mentioned desktop because you mentioned “personal computer industry” which I assumed means desktop/laptops.

    I think there are indeed more private (some can even be more secure) alternative to iOS, like calyx and/or graphene.

    But like you said, they do require a reasonable amount of computing literacy to install: first they need to know these projects exists, then they will need to connect their phone to their computer and click a single button.

    Thus, I think there is indeed no private and “popular” alternative to iOS, that a completely tech illiterate person can easily obtain.


  • I think it is useful to use fdroid in conjunction with private OS like graphene, divest and calyx all with excellent android compatibilities. Unfortunately, grapheneos, IMO the best of the three, is only avaliable on a small set of devices (so is ios).

    But I do agree with your point, if you use the stock android, even with privacy hardening, it is probably still not so private. But I don’t know if a hardened stock android is “worse” than an average user’s iPhone.