Not allowing third parties access to your walled garden is hardly in the same ballpark of possible evil as having access to all of your personal communications.  In the worst case of Apple being evil, you can't run Bob's cool software without buying another (non-Apple) device.  The worst case of Google being evil is that you go to jail (or worse depending on where you live).  And yes, people have gone to jail based on searching Google [1][2].<p>Please keep some perspective.<p>[1 | <a href="http://www.slaw.ca/2005/11/14/google-searches-used-in-evidence" rel="nofollow">http://www.slaw.ca/2005/11/14/google-searches-used-in-eviden...</a> ]<p>[2 | <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/26/wireless_hacker_plea.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/26/wireless_hacker_plea.ht...</a> ]<p>ADDENDUM: Yes, the evidence in these cases was not provided by Google.  No, that does not discredit my statement.  The point is that the business Google is in has far more capacity for "evil" than the business Apple is in.  Some comments have pointed out that Apple could have backdoors in their software that would allow them to be equally evil.  While that is technically possible it would be easily detectable using network monitoring tools, and no one has found one.  On the other hand, we have no idea how Google uses the data they have on us.  They claim to play nice, but there is no way that anyone could verify this, and it could change retro-actively at any moment.