You're right. There's nothing wrong with Apple products if you're fine with anyone being able to access and download everything off your phone whenever they want. Or if you don't mind that your phone ignores SSL certificates. Apple's software QA is atrocious and they don't care one lick about security. Also you must not care about 3rd parties being able to grab your location constantly even when the app is closed. So yes, there's nothing wrong with Apple products as long as you don't value privacy and security.
Hyperbole, exaggeration, and omission of circumstances doesn't help. I'm not an expert by any means, but let's take these one at a time.
1) iPhone ignores SSL certificates
First, iOS has built-in support for SSL, including certificate handling, but it is up to each app to implement how security is handled. If you're using Apple's standard framework to develop your app (eg, NSURLConnection), then the security should be good. About 3 years ago it was reported that some iPhone apps were not properly checking SSL certs for validity. That meant they'd accept any certificate from anybody. I don't believe this was or is a problem with any Apple-provided app. Matter of fact, the problem is probably in apps not written specifically for the iPhone and so they don't take advantage of the native security tools built into iOS.
2) Apple's software QA is atrocious
I can't fight a negative without specifics, so I'll let it stand. There was, after all,
this report in 2014. My own experience is that my iPhones and apps are no worse than my close friends' Android phones or the people at Blackberry with whom I work that are required to have Blackberry's if they want to use their phone for work.
3) They don't care one lick about security
Again a negative without specifics. Unlike Google, for instance, they are very careful about what data they collect on their users. In talking with engineers who work for Apple about ideas I had for them, they countered back that Apple would never collect that kind of data on their users. Here's
an article on Apple's respect for their users privacy:
iOS extensions were designed to prevent them from being able to circumvent a user’s privacy settings. No keyboards sniffing keystrokes and sending them off to the Internet (as has happened on Android).
Both HealthKit and HomeKit are designed so users control their own data, and must explicitly allow it to be shared with outsiders.
With Touch ID, not only does your fingerprint never leave the device, but apps can never see anything stored in the Secure Enclave.
The privacy-minded DuckDuckGo search engine will be a default option, right next to Bing and Google.
And when you really dig into the details, you learn that Apple lets you NSA-proof your iCloud keychain, encrypts Messages and FaceTime calls end-to-end, protects an employee’s personal information from his or her employer when using Mobile Device Management, and has designed the iPhone without law-enforcement back doors.
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But in the most telling recent news of all, it appears the Apple will randomize the Wi-Fi hardware address of iOS devices to frustrate location and advertising trackers who use this address to know who you are when you move around in public. This is a subtle feature that the vast majority of iOS users won’t ever realize exists, even as it protects them.
This is a company that destroys the keys to its encryption hardware after setting them up in the data center, just in case an employee decides to sneak in a back door or hand the keys off to a government agency. It designed systems like iMessages that a government could technically force them to sniff, but only with a fundamental change to the system architecture.
4) Also you must not care about 3rd parties being able to grab your location constantly even when the app is closed.
This is something that you can enable or disable either for everything, or on a per app basis. I just bought a new iPhone and part of the setup is asking you if apps can grab your location even when they're closed. So, if you care, get an iPhone for you will have control over this.
Anyway, I don't and haven't worked for Apple, I own a insignificant amount of Apple stock. I like a lot of their products. My experience with those products, and in discussions with Apple engineers is that Apple cares about security, privacy, and quality. The way that Apple checks apps that get listed in their App Store helps protect you from rogue applications that could try to access your data. Yeah, apps will slip by every now and then but it's way better in terms of security than the wild west that is Google Play.
I do know the app works on my wife's BlackBerry Priv. I just don't know a lot about the watches. Any recommendations?
