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Let's put it this way:

Apples' core business is not to violate your privacy left and right, which probably gives them an edge about the likes of Facebook and Google (at least in my book) in this sphere.

Apple makes their money by selling expensive premium devices. They don't earn anything from selling your personal information or data about your usage patterns.

Google on the other hand, is an advertising company that also makes software and a smartphone OS among others.

You can assume they have to cooperate with the US government at least, that's what Snowden risked his life for to share with us. The question you have to ask yourself is whether you care about that. I can see a near future internal conflict / civil war happening in the US though, in which case having the government - potentially your adversary - know everything about you is a bad thing.