I’d say that most of the android world is far more of a walled garden than iPhone. At least with the iPhone you know what you are getting. And this includes an operating system from a manufacturer that has stood up to authorities looking to go fishing any chance they can get and cry out about patriotism when they aren’t allowed to do warrantless searches. They have been known to exit marketplaces where they were asked to abandon this belief. Android? It is a system DESIGNED to market your information to the highest bidder from the outset and the only times Google gets upset about this is when a third party manufacturer decides they want to sell this information and cut Google out of the profits.
I’m personally happy to have a walled garden where I know the boundaries, as opposed to one where I can pretend to have freedom all the while being locked into a cage much tighter. Good luck getting hardware keys to unlock your phones to take out the spyware!
