You’re the one derailing from the actual topic, which was broadly can we trust our devices and specifically can we trust iOS, by muddying the water with what-about-android. The question wasn’t which we can trust more, the question was whether and how much we can trust Apple.
You can’t verify that iOS is doing what Apple says that it’s doing, because you can’t read the code. You can’t trust that Apple perfectly understands their product, because it’s extremely complicated, and therefore you can’t just take their word for it. I’ll state that the check here, although it’s painfully obvious, is that exploits happen. Researcher opinions are fine, but facts are better.
None of this is in any way contentious or new, it’s the exact debate about open-vs-closed that we’ve been having since the beginning of software.
You can’t verify that iOS is doing what Apple says that it’s doing, because you can’t read the code. You can’t trust that Apple perfectly understands their product, because it’s extremely complicated, and therefore you can’t just take their word for it. I’ll state that the check here, although it’s painfully obvious, is that exploits happen. Researcher opinions are fine, but facts are better.
None of this is in any way contentious or new, it’s the exact debate about open-vs-closed that we’ve been having since the beginning of software.