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For me at least, I can't see the what the overarching point is that you're trying to make.

A late reply, but my original point was based on this:

As bad as Apple is for privacy, Android is even worse.

You dislike "multinational corporations" and "mainstream products"... however you use GrapheneOS, which is based on Android (and therefore Google's open source). By proxy, GrapheneOS's updates are also somewhat reliant on Android's and in many cases overlapping features were removed/modified to adapt.

Here is a good quote from an article written by Nord VPN internet security expert Daniel Markuson:

"The number of Android devices Google has to serve makes it virtually impossible to keep all of them updated to the same level of security and for the same amount of time and frequency. It also makes it harder to roll those updates out, as they have to be distributed across multiple manufacturers and devices"

Yes compared to Google you could reasonably assume that updates are less frequent from a small development team. However, those OS's (GrapheneOS/LineageOS) are still much more secure and private than mainstream Android owing to their fundamentally secure and private configuration.

This is slightly contradictory as well and you're quoting someone from a "multinational corporation". However, the primary point was that iOS is not a better choice when it comes to privacy or security. This is, after all, a thread about Apple attempting to violate people's privacy.