Recently got a pixel as a secondary work phone and was reminded that I actually kinda like android (my main is an iPhone). Problem is mostly that I don’t want an even higher level spyware device. Of course I could use graphene but I use Apple Pay, find my / AirTags regularly and I also would need to find good alternatives to iCloud, and photos which I honestly kind of like. I suppose I could possibly get a pixel watch and get around the pay limitations but maybe some users who have switches might have some general insight.
Edit: I guess my best option right now is to stick with my current plan of both devices and maybe see what oem graphene partners with and if that somehow changes anything
I didn’t see ads until I got an iPad and it was because I had been rooting before that with adaway on Android. I didn’t know talkings ads existed. Then when it came to buying apps it was hard finding ones that didn’t have subscriptions, and the apps didn’t have a clear label of whether it had ads or not before installing. Finding foss options was even harder.
So outside of official apple apps I found the app market trash on Apple with it not letting me know if an app had ads, subscriptions, and no easy F-droid type alternative to seek out for foss apps.
Might be more “private” than Android but i found Apple a more ad infested experience, and didn’t help that their third browsers are so gutted compared to Android options to make adblocking when browsing the web better.