Beyond this, quite a few Android phones require a hardware key in order to put a third party OS on them…making them useless. So many of the phones that do come unlocked from China have chips that will leak spyware back into them even if you do happen to install third party software. So it almost doesn’t matter what Android you are using unless you want to get out an electron microscope and disassemble the chipset because you are going to get spied on. In the end, we have to depend on trust models and I don’t trust companies that sell below cost and that can’t explain how they are actually staying in business. I do know Apple makes enough money selling at a premium – and that this premium would be forever tainted if they betrayed us. We know where they make their profits…us.
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