Goalposts are racing across your comments. You claim both "freedom is good even if it means exposing users to attacks" (because rest assured if there is an "allow unsafe" button then black hats will find a way to convince your grandma tap it) and "freedom is good but not when it is bad for the user", whatever is more convenient for you at the time.

Apple's freedom is to make their devices as they see fit. User's freedom is to vote with her wallet. Feel free to buy whatever device you like if you want to have the ability to shoot yourself in the foot and get pwned, I like to have it in some circumstances but it's not what I would recommend to all of my non-tech contacts. I appreciate most EU privacy laws but not where it comes close to taking people's choice to voluntarily give up some freedoms for security, it's the opposite of empowering them.

> The vast majority of people have no opinions of whether Android or iOS is more secure.

This is just some random unsubstantiated claim. Apple buys entire billboards in city centers that basically promote privacy. You are saying you know better than their entire marketing department.

Even laypeople pay attention and notice that it's their Android owning friends' bank accounts get hijacked but not iPhone owning friends, etc.

> you can attribute exactly all of that instability to

Whatever you attribute this to, potato, potato, the end result is one has been more stable, more secure, supported for longer, more profitable for indie app developers etc than the other.

So much misinformation