I use https://ollama.com which gives you a huge choice of models to run locally!

Alright- those are fair points. I will point out that the YouTube thing was more about Google than Apple- I never used stock YouTube app until Google shut down the APIs a few years ago. There used to be many alternatives but since they were ad free, Google didn’t like that.

I’m not trying to start a pissing contest- but how is iPhone a give-up on privacy? If memory serves, the App Store was the first to call out all the permissions app requests and allow you to block, first to do massive tracking blocks that fucked Facebook, first to offer Secure Enclave on the device for encryption, built in private relay, email address obfuscation, usb port locking, emergency lockdown mode, remote wipe, etc etc etc. I don’t really understand how android is anything other than a Google data collection box. If you’re just talking about the software based browser/plugin ecosystem being limited on iOS, I totally agree, but it sounds like that’s gonna change finally- otherwise could you elaborate?

Ahh so you can pay them to serve you ads now! Neat!