Whenever I read stuff like this, I'm reminded how user-hostile Android and iOS are. Even compared to Windows. Or at least, to Windows XP and 7.

Not that many years ago, I had imagined that microcomputers and cellphones would merge. But I was expecting something like Linux. Or at worst, like Windows.

And it clearly didn't work out that way. We have smartphones that are never really owned by users. They run apps that have more rights than they do. With no practical way to change that.

It's sad, because I can't have a smartphone that I can trust. But so it goes.