[matwood]

> she's stuck using Safari and seeing ads. So, so many ads. Ads everywhere. I never see ads on my phone, but on hers the Internet is nothing but ads as far as the eye can see.

Purify is an ad blocker that works great on the iPhone. Content blockers have been a supported part of iOS for the last couple versions. Apple actually caught a lot of flack from websites for allowing them.

> But at least with Android I have freedom.

Freedom to send all your data to Google? Sure, you can install custom ROMs, but now you're squarely out of any normal user scenario.

> That's because with an iPhone there are no custom OSes and you're stuck with Apple's user-hostile features.

You're considering Apple user hostile when the only way to get around Androids lack of security updates is to go deal with custom ROMs? Apple tends to make the best decision for the largest amount of users. Do they always match up with my decisions? No, but they are close enough, and I don't have to deal with the Android mess when all I want is a working phone.

[Tarq0n]

iTunes is user hostile. I might try an iPhone if not for the terrible experience of managing one on Windows.

I was also unimpressed by how difficult it was to get my family member's pictures out of their cloud offering, when asked to do so for relatives.

[matwood]

You know the iPhone has not needed iTunes for quite awhile? I'm not even sure about the last time I started iTunes on my computer. Even moving from an iPhone to a new iPhone is as simple as holding the 2 phones close together and signing in on the new phone.

iCloud also works fine with Apple devices, but can be mostly skipped. Google Photos will happily upload all the pics on the iPhone to Google pictures. The 5GB iCloud is then plenty for iPhone data backups.