You must be reading some very different articles to me about google and apple then. Not only is google collecting and selling user data it is actively using it to serve google ads in the browser!
You are confusing the OS with the browser and with specific Google services such as Google Search.
Google collects data if you use specific Google services (and you have a lot of opt-out control). Google does not spy on you simply using your OS, nor does the Google browser (i.e. Chrome) spy on you. If you want us to believe otherwise, please provide conclusive proof, otherwise it's just innuendo.
Android is not secure and no requests are made to unlock it as it's very easy to get data off an android device. iOS device require decapping of chips and is almost impossible to get into.
I think you're basing your mistaken assumptions on a couple of highly publicised crimes in which perpetrators used iPhones, and I believe in all situations the data was eventually extracted. Otherwise Android is about as secure as iOS, with the Android running on the newest Google devices being more secure, since Google has the most pro-active security policy.
In any case, nobody with a modicum of common sense should be worried about security on any Android device, as long as they don't install dubious applications especially from unknown sources.
To date I never heard of anyone of my acquaintance using Android having some security issue, however I know of people having messed-up iPhones because they received some SMS.
'I work in security' has to be the worst way to claim knowledge on the subject.
I don't see how that follows. It's like saying that "I'm a surgeon" has to be the worst way to claim knowledge on anatomy, i.e. nonsense.
At this point there are no ETHICAL companies, google and apple both have bottom line profits and shareholder interest running the show.
Ethics has nothing to do with profits and bottom lines. They are not mutually exclusive. It's plain stupid to assume that profit makes everyone a liar and a cheat. One thing has nothing to do with the other. I don't think Apple is unethical because they're very profitable, but because they are. It's company culture: high prices, bling-bling and lies.
Apple aren't spinning some security lie, there is plenty of evidence and events that support iOS being a more secure platform.
More nonsense. And yes, Apple is spinning all sorts of security lies. At they core they believe in security through obscurity, i.e. no real security. Their attitude in respect to exploits and security problems is that they should be hidden from the public, while they are in absolutely no rush to fix them. See their response to the flaws revealed by Google's security team - it wasn't "thanks we'll fix it asap", it was "we'll sue you if you keep disclosing them".
Some of their past security flaws were so crass as to imply that core security code written by Apple passes no code reviews, no automated testing, and that generally Apple is cavalier about security.
All this reveals a profoundly unsettling image about Apple in terms of security. This is in my mind without a doubt an unethical company whose executives habitually lie and deceive the public on the topic.
When you say spotlight sends data by default you mean you are offered a checkbox that everyone uncheckes at install/setup. That is NOT by default, it's an options to have or not have.
I have two Macbooks thus I went through two Sierra initial setups and I assure you that it was on by default, and that the setup process was not straight-forward about it sending by default everything I type in Spotlight to Bing. Thankfully I am privacy-aware and I usually dig through options as soon as I have a new OS.
