“Apple App Store fees are a de facto global tax on the Internet. Epic is right.”

Apple exists too. That's why I criticize both in due measure.

Apple's supreme UX and mobile hardware aside, no one in their right mind, who's serious about privacy, would ever use android. The amount of hoops you need to jump through to degoogle an android device (with continuous degoogled upgrades) is insane.

Android is perfect for the burner phones though, the ones that you trash after a call or 2 (still, expect that every sensor possible will be reporting it's data back to "a manufacturing party" the moment you activate it)