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Apple became the biggest corporation in the world because they worked out how to build humane interfaces into the technologies that shape the future. That you believe Grandma will be just fine nerding around with system internals, or will care what ROM is(!) shows just how far out of touch so many hackers really are. I'm sorry, but no: Android is not a solution.

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Of course! I'm not suggesting it's a solution for everyone at all. Just realize that Grandma will never have privacy like that.

Corporations and governments combine to basically make privacy a niche thing for tinkerers only, you simply cannot mass-market the development attitudes nor technical and opsec skills needed to achieve a real degree of privacy on the user side.

It's impossible to have privacy just for you in a society that otherwise doesn't have privacy. Think Facebook: even if you don't share much details, you friends certainly do. They will post your photos together and happily tag you on them, they will write how you hung out together, they will geo-tag your shared commutes, etc. Even if you don't share too many details with Apple/Google/Amazon/etc, your mobile carrier certainly does. Your Facebook/Twitter/TikTok does. Everyone around you does.

The solution to this problem does not lie in a technical plane, nor does it in digital escapism.

Haha, what an argument.

Grandma does just fine on Android and would be utterly confused by iOS.

It's all about what you're used to.

UX discoverability on iOS is atrocious. You have to know what the special gestures are just switch and open apps, whereas Android has buttons.

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