I was responding to the Windows phone comment, and yes, I know that both Android and the iPhone OS are based on Linux kernels.
My distaste is more about having loads of private data on an always-on network connected machine. I run regular backups of data on my private home network and use HP Ultrium tape for backup of that data, but none of my internal machines are connected to the Internet. The only time anything on my home network is exposed to the outside world is when I’m sitting at my gaming desktop, and I have plenty of threat assessment software running to warn me if anything is awry.
Call me old fashioned, but my idea of a smart phone is a leather-bound notepad and a fountain pen.
Heck! I wouldn’t even have my dirt-basic cell phone if I weren’t on 24 emergency call.
There are lots of things to use the phone for other than banking and shopping.
GPS
MP3 player
kindle reader
mobile FreeRepublic reader.
Yellow and white pages.
That is 99.9% of my smart phone use. No information there that would change my life if it got out.
iOS is a subset of OSX. OSX is BSD UNIX based.
Thank you for the disambiguation. Yeah, I try to minimize the amount of personal data on my phone for just that reason.