> Apple has never made such a statement.

From the article:

> Apple said: “Security researchers agree iPhone is the safest, most secure consumer mobile device on the market.”

Exactly. It says nothing about their phones being secure. Only that they are more secure than their competitors.

So it is fair to say that iPhones are insecure

No - that would obviously be just as false as claiming they are secure.

they can't both be false

Of course they can. They are categorical statements. The reality is not absolute.

by that logic, of course they can't. The statement that they can is categorical

What you just said is gibberish because it ignores the context of what we are talking about.

You are imagining that computer security is absolute. A system cannot be 100% secure or 100% insecure. To claim either is obviously false.

Systems can be relatively more or less secure than other system.

That's a stretch.

No, it’s what they said.

Saying they claimed their phones to be secure is just a lie.

It's a stretch to argue that "safest, most secure consumer mobile device on the market" is not a claim of security. The average reader would not interpret that statement as you did, which makes the statement misleading.

> is not a claim of security.

It is a claim of relative security but it is a lie to say that Apple claimed their device is secure.

>The average reader would not interpret that statement as you did

I think most people can read the statement for what it is - a comparison to other devices on the market.