On iOS I’m using OutRun. It provides basic activity tracking, which is what I care about. I don’t need a social network.

It’s open source: https://github.com/timfraedrich/OutRun

I wonder if they will implement the same malicious compliance as they did in the EU with the junk core technology fees and notarization requirements.

Strange, Big Tech has no inherit right to operate in foreign markets. If they want to be in those markets, they need to pay their fair share. I would be glad to see them pull out of those markets, but that won’t easily happen.

Mobile apps are also loaded with third party ad and spyware frameworks which bloats up the size.

Proprietary software is also really dogmatic. Steve Jobs famously didn’t support flash on the iPhone, there also was no direct access to files/file system in the UI for a very long time. Tim Cook told someone’s Mom to just buy an iPhone to access iMessage. There’s too many user hostile dogmatic positions from Apple.

I think this has nothing to do with open source vs proprietary, but rather specific individuals having power/control over the software to force specific decisions.