You misread me. I was listing reasons why a tech savvy person would want an Iphone. Fundamentally, it boils down to two things:
1, Apple has a better track record for privacy than Google.
2, Yes, you can bung custom ROMs and so forth, but why should you spend your valuable time sysadmining your phone?
Back in the 00’s i spent hours tweaking my computer, to the point where I’d break something and decide to reinstall the OS. It was fun. And then I stopped doing that because I wanted to spend my limited time doing other things.
My partner worked as a computer programmer in the early 90’s. But when we moved in together in 1998, she delegated all responsibility for the care and feeding of our computers to me. Because she didn’t want to deal with that stuff any more. And at this point, neither do I. I don’t want to spend my limited time feeding and diapering a computer. I just want to use one. Which is why I buy IOS devices instead of Android, and why I use Windows and Mac OS instead of Linux.
