I'm switching to iOS from a high end Android phone. My main reasons are better privacy and better user experience. My main reason I switched to Android was screen size.
Do you see Apple as being better for privacy? Sure, Google has my Gmail, but only because I choose to give it to them. I could use anything else on my Android phone.
Do you use Firefox, duckduckgo, XPrivacy etc.? Because Apple, in reality, only gives you one choice (even when I was using Opera, Safari would butt in all of the time - I haven't read a word about iOS8 so correct me if I'm wrong), and you're screwed if it doesn't work.
Android's permission model is inexcusably malicious. For instance, the "phone status" permission, that also gives apps the ability to see who you call, read your device ID, etc. There's zero reason that checking to see if the phone is active requires a permission. But by including those very intrusive permissions along with a benign one, Google encourages people to get used to revealing tons of personal information.
Google now allows apps to silently add even more permissions, if they are in the "same group". They try to downplay and confuse things as much as possible.
It seems highly unlikely this was accidental. This is the main reason I'm disgusted with Google/Android and am doing all I can to stop using their products and services.
I agree that that is terrible, but I use XPrivacy to combat it.
If you don't mind educating me further - what is the state of permissions on iOS? I haven't been using it for a year, but I don't recall any user involvement in allowing or forbidding any permissions at all. Is it better in any way?
I'm switching to iOS from a high end Android phone. My main reasons are better privacy and better user experience. My main reason I switched to Android was screen size.