I use an iPhone simply because I refuse to use google services any longer, not because I’m delusional about apple caring about privacy.

I chose the bay ending also. I remember sitting there watching the final cutscene feeling utterly defeated. I didn’t beat the game, it beat me.

This is because of people stealing toilet paper out of public restrooms

https://www.vice.com/en/article/chinas-fighting-toilet-paper-thieves-with-facial-recognition/

I use email as an analogy. Most non-tech people are familiar with the idea of there being different email providers so I use that concept to describe the fediverse.