I work as a mobile dev. particularly in ad-tech and security. at my comp, marketers spend 10x more on ads to iOS than Androids in the US. meaning, more advertisers come to us and tell us we want us to target more iOS users with the budget.

and most do consider apple the benevolent do-good company and many do make the claim. Apple uses privacy as marketing and the result is many people blindly trust them and their devices or at least assume the competition is flagrantly out to get them. you seem to have your pulse on things but that's not true for most iPhones users, even those who say they care about privacy.

you also can't say it's my feelings and then say it's probably statistically true at the same time lol it's is true and most people on ios still use Google front and center on their mobile experience.

while you're not sure if that's true, I AM sure it's true. privacy means your data stays with you. period. the best option is not giving people your data to begin with.