Any platform you buy into includes lock-in. Buying an Android phone locks you into the world of Android apps just as much as an iOS device locks you into iOS apps. Music on iTunes is DRM free. eBooks are an issue, but there's a Kindle app for iOS and plenty of other options just as on Android.
Even when it comes to browsers and search engines, now that iOS 8 has robust XPC, the optimised browser engine is available to third party browser apps. These will let you set whatever default search provider you like, without any performance compromises.
Sure there are some areas where Android devices retain more customisability, but iOS 8 closes the gap considerably, and without fundamentally compromising security and privacy in the way many of these features do on Android.
> Any platform you buy into includes lock-in. Buying an Android phone locks you into the world of Android apps just as much as an iOS device locks you into iOS apps.
Yet I can build an android app,deploy it, share it with my friends and co-workers without having to put it on google play,owning a specific computer with a specific os, or paying a fee.
Even when it comes to browsers and search engines, now that iOS 8 has robust XPC, the optimised browser engine is available to third party browser apps. These will let you set whatever default search provider you like, without any performance compromises.
Sure there are some areas where Android devices retain more customisability, but iOS 8 closes the gap considerably, and without fundamentally compromising security and privacy in the way many of these features do on Android.