content: I don't disagree, but are they any more an advertising platform than an Android?  When I pick up my Android when it's on Wifi and unlock it, it seems to always want my attention in 16 ways, many times automatically doing whatever it is it wants to do regardless of my input. Then  once it's done doing it's really important stuff, I'm free to do whatever it was that I picked it up for.  I've never owned an iPhone but I know it it's a piece of hardware running software made by the same company.  The way I see Android is it's a free software operating system made by Google, an advertising company amongst other things, running on a variety of hardware from eleventy manufacturers, one of which has injected their own middleware (TouchWiz).  One model has several degrees of failure, the other doesn't. I've always been an android person but lately I'm getting fed up with the lack of reasonable security (granular permissions), and a general takeover of my device by every app on it.  I had the original Droid, a Droid X2, a Note 2, and now a Note 4 and it seems to be getting progressively worse on the issues I've mentioned.    Asking any iPhone users out there; If I run out tomorrow and buy an iPhone, am I going to be bothered by the issues I've mentioned? Will apps take over the device?  I already know the security permissions issue is better on iOS.