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There is nothing stopping you from rooting your iPhone and installing android on it. Problem solved. Now you can add all the spammerware you like.

Nothing except a hardware root of trust sealed by keys owned by Apple?

I suppose you want the raw source for all the proprietary software you buy as well?

That would certainly be nice.

Classic false dichotomy. Do you really think that any software not blessed by Apple must be necessarily malware?

A significant amount of it is, yes.