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I've got my notes Here I wanted to go
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through the pros of Android the pros of
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IOS as well as a couple of the cons of
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each of them and kind of give you my
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take on the usability differences
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between the two of them to help you
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decide which one's the best for you cuz
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I would argue that what you can do on
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each device is a lot more important and
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I definitely want to start with third
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party app stores it's one of the best
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things about Android the fact that you
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can just go online without a Google
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account download an app install it on
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your phone you can get a third party app
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store no need for the Google Play Store
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even on a phone that uses Google Play
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services you can just not sign into your
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Google account and still get access to
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everything you need unlike iOS where you
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can't really do anything on an iPhone
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without an Apple account on that note
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Android just has more apps uh that have
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kind of a privacy and security Focus so
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for example you can get Molly on an
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Android device which is a fork of signal
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with some different features uh which
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allows you to actually use signal in
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multiple phones I covered that more in
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my signal hardening guide but there's
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nothing like this on iOS there's also no
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proper tour browser on iOS but there is
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one on Android and there are lots of
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other apps that are Android exclusive uh
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that are dedicated to your safety and a
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lot of those can be found on fdroid so
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if you're kind of curious for a larger
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list fdroid is uh the App Store I'd
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recommend you check out it's open source
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you can see a lot of the tools in there
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that many of them are just not available
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on iOS one reason that they're not on
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iOS is a lot of these tools actually
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require functionality that iOS doesn't
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provide developers so for example
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rethink DNS one of the people who
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actually inspired this video because
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they left a comment that got me thinking
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about this um on our Forum um but they
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build an awesome tool that can't really
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easily exist as well on iOS um you also
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have things like Brier that require a
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constant background connection to be
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able to communicate with someone
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peer-to-peer but the peers have to be
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online in order to actually uh
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communicate and you can't really do that
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on iOS which doesn't really allow apps
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to 24/7 uh connect in the background
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there's also the ability speaking of to
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flash any operating system this is huge
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for people who want to be able to say
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they can run an open source uh operating
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system on their device it also gives you
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more flexibility and customization
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because different operating systems have
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different sets of features and they have
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different things that they're
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prioritizing for different consumers
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some of them are dedicated to Bringing
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longevity to older devices some of them
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are focused on security some are focused
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on more of a middle ground approach to
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everything um so there's really just a
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lot of variability between operating
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systems but the point is you get to
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choose what you want and I think that's
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a really cool thing that's just not
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possible on iOS multiple browser engines
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on android enable you to use straight up
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different browser engines you might
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think what the hell yeah on iOS you
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can't really do that it's the only
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mainstream operating system on both
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mobile and desktop that restricts you to
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just one browser engine it enables
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people who know what they're doing to
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take things quite a bit further and this
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is why I think we see like very powerful
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browsers on Android and finally this is
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my favorite feature on Android and it's
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really underrated and people don't
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really talk about it much and if they
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brought this to iOS I think that would
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actually be gamechanging for iOS users
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it's work profiles and user accounts
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work profiles and user accounts enable
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you to pretty much infinitely
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compartmentalize different things on
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your phone can have work on the same
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phone you could have a hobby on a
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different phone in a different work
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profile different user account for those
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of you wondering more of the Practical
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differences on a more granular level you
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can do things like have two signal
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accounts on the same phone on different
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apps but it's a still signal it's just
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you have signal in a work profile and
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signal in a regular profile or signal in
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an entirely different user account you
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can set up different VPN connections
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also for different work profiles or
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different user accounts uh depending on
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your OS and how everything's handled
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there iOS you kind of just have to suck
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it up and keep everything on the same
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phone with the same Apple account with
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the same app and you can't really
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customize things quite as much those are
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kind of the core things about Android
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that I think enable some of the coolest
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things for the privacy security people
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um that are going to allow you to kind
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of maximize your journey within the
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Android ecosystem with that said iOS has
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some really cool benefits as well that
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some people should really take into
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consideration I've made a whole video
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about lockdown mode what it does what it
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doesn't do and kind of the differences
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there it's going to be a little bit
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harder to match the security of lockdown
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mode on an Android device unless you're
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starting to look into more advanced
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things so I think that's a big selling
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point for iOS people who just want a
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convenient efficient way to just boost
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the security of their phone
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substantially that is a pretty good way
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to do it even more important I think
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really the core selling point right now
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for iOS in general is Advanced Data
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protection here's why on Android there's
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no Central efficient seamless way to
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actually have end to end encryption for
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most things on your phone um on Android
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the way this would look like if I were
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to go about it it would be okay maybe
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download like the proton suite and try
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to use that for as much as I can even
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though it doesn't really integrate super
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well with the operating system we can
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kind of work around that a little bit um
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obviously using an n0 encrypted
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messenger and yeah that's kind of it on
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the other hand iOS with ADP means you
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get access to pretty much all of Apple's
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tools within iCloud but with end to end
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encryption meaning you're going to get
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apple Health Apple photos um obviously
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iMessage you're going to have all your
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device backups to the cloud also be end
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and encrypted pretty much everything in
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iCloud will be ENT and encrypted even
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your documents now the only exceptions
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to this are mail calendar and contacts
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all three of which are Legacy
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technologies that are hard to do end to
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end encryption for and you might be uh
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getting Deja Vu now cuz you're like
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where has he said that before it's like
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oh yeah proton reviews so yeah proton's
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a perfect fill in on iOS for all of you
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iOS users um and also Tuda as well um
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for some of those things so you have a
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pretty easy swap inss for the few things
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that iCloud doesn't do with Advanced
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Data protection
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I really wish something like this
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existed on Android but I think the
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openness of Android um also makes it
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just much harder to do something quite
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as seamless so that is one huge selling
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point for iOS easy end to- endend
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encryption for a lot of The Suite on the
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topic of backups uh encrypted backups on
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iOS are just so much easier just plug in
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your phone uh open your computer click
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encrypt backup and then do a backup if
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you throw your phone in a lake get a new
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one plug it in as long as you have the
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password uh not only is it a much
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smoother seamless uh restore and backup
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method uh than it is for a lot of
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android devices but it's encrypted and
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again if you wanted to use ADP you can
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even get that kind of seamlessness uh
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with the cloud as well without even
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needing to plug in the phone um this one
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is a little bit iffy and an asterisk
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because it might actually be a pro for
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Android now but historically again
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historically Apple's been a lot better
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about supporting their phones longer and
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pushing security updates to older
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devices wasn't that long ago that Apple
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just pushed a small security update to
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the iPhone 5S which is just kind of wild
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um here's the thing though Google and
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other Android manufacturers are actually
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committing to pretty darn long security
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update lengths now so this might
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actually be a pro for Android going
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forward but we just haven't seen it pan
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out yet so I'm a little bit cautious to
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give that win to Android quite yet but I
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think it's very likely that Google will
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stick to this promise and if they do
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then this is either you know they're
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going to match each other and IOS and
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Android both are going to have similar
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uh update times or Android might even
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beat it out slightly next up webkit um
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the benefit of webkit which is the
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browser engine that's forced on iOS
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users again it has a baseline of uh kind
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of safety and you can see this on sites
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like privacy tests.org if you compare
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the Android section to the iOS section
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you'll see there's just a lot more
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variability in the Android side of
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things than the iOS side of things and
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that's because webkit does in some ways
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actually kind of bring the Baseline up
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and that's something that Arthur
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Edelstein Who develops uh privacy
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test.org even mentioned men in the
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interview that I did with him so the
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real question I want people to ask
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themselves uh to help decide this iOS
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versus Android thing for their own
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personal Journey what tools am I using
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on my phone to improve my
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safety really like I want you to think
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about it am I using this messenger does
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this messenger work better on iOS on
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Android um am I not moving to a
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different messenger because of the
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operating system I'm using what about my
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VPN what about browser I'm choosing to
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use how about how my phone integrates
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with my other devices in my workflow
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that's something people don't talk about
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honestly I hate to say it but it also
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depends on the kind of the stuff your
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family uses a lot of people are in
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family plans for things so I think iOS
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versus
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Android I don't think it's wrong to just
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look at the benefits and pros and cons
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of the technical differences between the
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two of them but I think it kind of uh
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negates how important the tools are you
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use daytoday and on which operating
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system those tools work better for you
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on I'd be really curious to hear some of
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your thoughts um I know that uh it's a
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pretty polarizing discussion because
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there's only two options um but I'd love
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uh for all of you listening to leave
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your thoughts Below on some of the
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features that you feel like you can't
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give up on Android or on iOS so leave
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those below what can't you give up on
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your operating system that keeps you on
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your operating system with that said um
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