You’re absolutely right on this point. I’ve known AltStore and know it’s really limited.

Gladly, Europe’s Digital Markets Act (mostly against companies such as Apple) is changing things in the good way regarding this. It’s still infuriating laws are necessary for this.

Don’t know what you’re mad at lol, chill a bit

Btw I’m refering to this kind of issues which affects all Android devices (due to poor store policies) which, to my knowledge, didn’t affect any iphones to this scale : https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2021/02/barcode-scanner-app-on-google-play-infects-10-million-users-with-one-update

There’s plenty of other kind of viruses or data stealing apps with an impact orders of magnitude wider than on iphones (and it’s not only because there’s more android devices in the world: android security really is insufficient).

To justify myself a bit more: I work in security engineering.

Well, a whole bunch of things. I really don’t want to play devil’s advocate (disclaimer: I hate Apple), but things like keeping the same smartphone with its security updates for 7 years (making the price per year of iphones cheaper than androids), getting privacy features, hardened security, essentially make apple device more able than the vast majority of android devices.

Surely, that’s not true for all. I believe the Fairphone beats them all on those points, though that’s very niche.