We already discussed this. iOS has a huge attack surface that can only be patched via system updates, which is horribly bad design and terrible for security.
> The other 2.7 billion Android users probably would care if they knew any better.
If those billions knew better, they would get an Android One or Pixel instead of an instead of an iOS or other Android device. We already established that there is only one set of devices that is good for security, and the vast majority of people, including you it seems, do not have them. It's not my problem to fix their security. I don't buy them myself.
> I have a Mac Mini from 2006 running Windows 7 that is still getting security updates and a Dell
In exactly the same way, updates work fine for those of us on properly updated Android devices, and Windows updates don't work for people with hardware that has poorly supported drivers. You didn't address my point. Also, you still haven't addressed why this matters.
> Linux is free open source software that anyone can use, no one pays Linus for using it, and Linus doesn’t have much of any criteria about how it’s used.
So exactly the same as Android.
> There is no five year old iPhone that isn’t supported and receiving security patches.
And all of them have poorly updated userspace. There is no five year old Android phone that has poorly updated userspace. All of those are insecure except for the subset of Android devices that have properly updated base system.
And your theory isn’t supported by facts on the ground - we have statistics about the percentage of iOS devices running the latest version of iOS versus the number of Android devices.
Since iOS annoying asks you to upgrade when there is one available and you are given a choice to automatically update when you’re not using, do you have a reliable citation showing the number of iOS devices without the latest version compared to the number of Android devices? Or do you just have a hunch?
Seeing that the latest iPhones you can get that hasn’t received a recent patch is the iPhone 4 from 2010, where are “all of the insecure iPhones” - especially seeing that both Google and Apple routinely publish the percentage of devices running older OS’s, there is no conjecture needed on which one is running a greater percentage of OS’s with unpatched vulnerabilities - we have numbers straight from the source.
Who cares? Don't buy them. Besides, I already pointed out in my previous post that Microsoft didn't solve this problem.
Seeing that I have a Mac Mini from 2006 running Windows 7 that is still getting security updates and a Dell from 2009 running Windows 10, I think Microsoft solved the problem a lot better than Google. The other 2.7 billion Android users probably would care if they knew any better.
you blame Linus for all the routers that don't get updated, or do you just not buy them?
Linux is free open source software that anyone can use, no one pays Linus for using it, and Linus doesn’t have much of any criteria about how it’s used. None of that is true about Android. What makes Android Android is Google Play Services that is licensed by a commercial entity.
So is a five year old midrange Android phone, which is also as insecure as any iPhone. Don't buy them
There is no five year old iPhone that isn’t supported and receiving security patches. Right now, there isn’t any 8 year iPhone that hasn’t received a security patch recently.