[wtmt]

>Better company running it

Nope, I disagree. Google is certainly not a better company than Apple when it comes to data collection, making it confusing (and sometimes impossible) to prevent data collection, and profiling user behavior to target them for ads.

[lern_too_spel]

Nonsense. It is impossible to prevent Apple from knowing every app you install on your phone, and you can't even develop for your own phone without deanonymizing yourself with payment info. Any app that requests location also causes that location to be sent to Apple, and there is no way to turn that off. On even Google-flavored Androids, you get to choose what information gets sent to Google, and sending location info to Google for every location request is opt in instead of impossible to disable (as on iOS) or merely opt out.

To make the point really obvious, even Google-flavored Android devices are perfectly usable without a Google account (install apps, etc.). iOS is unusable without an Apple ID.