> There's such a simple solution: don't buy an iPhone.

Is there a platform that gives me the freedom to run what I want, provides a decent security model, doesn't spy on everything I do, and if you squint just right, 'just works'?

If not, there is no simple solution, there's just different tradeoffs in a huge pile of poop.

Yeah, I don't understand why this position needs defending. Both Google and Apple's app stores have major problems, and they could learn a little from each other.