[Beestie]

Android: Here's the phone; knock yourself out

Apple: Father knows best (but Father is getting old and sometimes forgets things)

Windows: If only we understood what the ancestors knew

[dgxyz]

Android is more "here's a pocket panopticon we hope you won't unconfigure"

Apple is more "here's this refined product which we designated as refined after a heavy session snooting cocaine off a toilet seat"

[singpolyma3]

To be fair my iPhone spys on me in much more actively creepy ways than my android ever did. Showing ads for nearby pizza places at lunchtime on the homescreen. Telling me at about the time of my son's soccer that I may be interested in going to the place where his soccer is about now (despite me never using navigation on my phone) etc

[lubujackson]

More like: Apple: Father died a while back, but Step-Father is here now and he doesn't love you.

[sleight42]

Cook is, ultimately, the enshittifier of things Apple. The buck stops with him. But he does things to keep the stock price up so...

[ActorNightly]

If Steve jobs was still around, the iPhone would be considerably worse.

[russdill]

Just to play both sides here, on pixel there is a news feed if you swipe the home screen right. It is now infused with ai summaries rather than the first few lines of the story with no way to go back.

Course, I can switch to a different launcher, but it makes it much less of a "batteries included" sort of product.

[DangitBobby]

There is a setting to disable this. Long press on your home screen background > Home Settings > Toggle "Swipe to access Google app"