What mobile platform is better? I’d rather overpay slightly for hardware and have some developer on HN get pissed at the App Store than give all my personal information and my whereabouts to Google.
On Android, you can ignore Google and use open source applications from F-Droid as your daily driver. If you want to go further you can install LineageOS and strip out Google Play Services. That's not an available option on iOS.
I just got a PinePhone and I wasn't expecting a daily driver device ... but ... oh boy, it's really, really bad. Definitely the slowest, kernel-panicky, least functional device I've ever bought. It is worse than the worst android device ever made (I've played with $10 android devices from 2013, this is slower and less functional.) It is shockingly bad. While the software is frightening, the hardware is also not good. The USB C port is totally finicky.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this device now... hopefully I can find some fun from it.
What OS are you using? My PinePhone serves as a daily driver just fine with Mobian and SXMo. It's a bit slow but good-looking for the first OS and a bit ugly but pretty fast for the second one.
