Serious question - no snark just genuine ignorance, what products have Google and Apple done this with?
Google released Android open source, but then made unlocking bootloaders and flashing devices as difficult as possible for laymen. So they get to point at AOSP and say "open source" but in practice the vast majority of users end up running proprietary builds with big G's telemetry baked in
> in practice the vast majority of users end up running proprietary builds with big G's telemetry baked in
The vast majority of users are always going to do this, regardless of how easy it is to install a custom OS.