If you don't trust Google and Apple when they say their API does what they say it does, then you can't use an iPhone or Android phone.
I understand that people are conscious about these things but what I don't understand is how people say "oh I'd never run an app using an API from google/apple, they have a horrible track record" and then carry a phone in their pocket with an OS from either Google or Apple, where those companies can basically do whatever they want. If you carry such a phone you already trust them. If this API does what it says it does (basically exchange random numbers) then how is that worse than what you already trust your phone to do?
> If you carry such a phone you already trust them.
I don't. But not because I think my dumbphone isn't also basically a mic I carry around, but because mobile devices are a joke, one and all. It's like moving back to communicating with infant sounds after I learned how to walk, form sentences and use tools -- why would I? Because so many people do, that they already assume everybody does?
I don't need e.g. Whatsapp to stay in contact with people I care about and who care about me, if I was only reachable by mail they'd send me letters. Anyone incapable of that I would surely dislike for dozens of other reasons already, so the question of "how to stay in contact even though I don't have a smartphone" literally didn't come up once since Apple "changed the world" in 2007, heh.
This stuff is just a very recent blip in our evolution as a species, and the phase we're in is about as impressive as the lies people told each other once they invented writing. It too shall pass.
I understand that people are conscious about these things but what I don't understand is how people say "oh I'd never run an app using an API from google/apple, they have a horrible track record" and then carry a phone in their pocket with an OS from either Google or Apple, where those companies can basically do whatever they want. If you carry such a phone you already trust them. If this API does what it says it does (basically exchange random numbers) then how is that worse than what you already trust your phone to do?