Perhaps the biggest advantage of the iPhone, aside from Apple making most of their money selling real products not your data, is that every concern he had was accompanied by a setting to disable it
This is the reason why I have a certain degree of confidence in Apple’s privacy aspirations. Apple makes their money primarily by selling cool stuff to end users. Their business model heavily disincentives mass tracking.
Google and Meta couldn’t ever be as privacy-friendly as Apple, due to their business models.
Airplane mode leaves the cellular radio on? Not according to signal tests!