For me it would we a great progress, if I would not be forced into an "ecosystem" bei either Apple and Google. Devices and software should both be things that you buy once and then you are not forced into any kind of connection with the manufacturer. Basically like buying a toaster. Or like buying a PC game in the good old times when those games did not establish any intertent connection with the software company. You bought the game in a physical store, installed it from the CD and the manufacturer would not even know that you bought it.
Today you can chose to either lose your freedom by getting caged into Apples's ecosystem or you lose your privacy with Android, which was just created by Google to gather data to deleiver targeted ads.
Both could easily be stopped by lawmakers. I have some hopes that lawmakers will force Apple to open up things like iMessage, which still has to use SMS to communicate with Android users and als stopp the insane data collection of Google, which uses every dirty trick and even lies to get new data.
How powerful Google is became visible when it stopped providing Android updates to Huawei phones because of US sanctions. That made it very hard for Huawei to sell phones in many parts of the world, although their phones are much better than Samsung phones in the same price range for example. The main losers were the customers.
