As they say on all the police procedural shows on television, "Follow the money." The greater part of Google's income is derived from selling the user's data and browsing history so privacy and security are to them an anathema. Every product they produce is on one way or another geared toward collecting your data and other than the data collection element their products are pretty good but all are designed to draw user's into the Google eco-system to enable Google to gather more data about YOU. That alone is enough to make me suspicious of anything Google related and that includes Chrome, Google Maps, Ring, etc. They are not evil, just totally focused on their bottom line to the exclusion of the interests of their users.

Originally Posted by jchuzi
For better or worse, I do not have a smart phone and don't want one. My dumb phone makes phone calls, and that's all that I want it for.
On the other hand my iPhone and its companion Apple Watch are, as our kids used to say, the boss of me. They monitor my health and daily activity, warn me when something is not as it should be; suggest I see the doctor, and even call 911 if the condition is critical; tell me when to go to sleep and when to wake up, when to stand, when to take a minute for myself, encourage me to exercise, keep me up to date with the current news, manage my schedule, plan vacations, navigate my car and even help me find it when I forget where I parked. Oh yes, they also handle telephone calls, text messages, video conferences, and emails. I could get by without them, but I would not be as healthy or as well informed and would need a plethora of other gadgets to fill in the gaps. The downside is every year I say, "this phone or this watch does everything I need so I am not going to upgrade it this year." Then at the WWDC in June they announce a new feature and I wind up upgrading. (This year it is rumored to be the ability of the watch to non-invasively monitor blood-sugar readings so I probably will upgrade the watch, but my iPhone 11 Max is still good for another year (but then I haven't seen next weeks keynote yet 🤷‍♂️).

If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

— Albert Einstein