>Apple went to the mat to protect its customers from the FBI. That earns ️<3 from me. Do I think Google would look out for me like that? Hahah, no, I do not think so.
They implemented countermeasures on their devices to prevent the exact situation where the FBI would compel them to produce a signed, backdoored, firmware like they wanted Apple to do after San Bernadino.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/05/insider-at...
Unless you have the device's passcode, you can't update the firmware that deals with passcode checking, unless you wipe the data.