Do these people really believe that the cypherpunk ethos involves being an Apple bootlicker? I don't get it.
That’s time you don’t get back, lost forever because some one you’ll never meet on a committee says no.
“It has to be an app” is old world thinking. No iOS app in the past 3 years or more has disrupted anything.
It’s nice that it’s an option, I agree. That’s not really cypherpunk tho, is it?
So targeting Android makes much more sense than targeting iOS in this respect.
Android users are notorious for not spending money (IIRC Apple users spend double the amount of money on subscriptions vs Android users) and it's unlikely Android users would tip content creators, or even watch the content they're putting out there.
But irrespective of that, none of that makes it cypherpunk.
Cypherpunk involves advocating widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change.
On that front Google is VERY far behind Apple.
But it doesn’t make using the “open” software that’s completely controlled by the giant corporate empire any more “cypherpunk”, does it?
From my phone (in Minecraft), I run an IPFS node, I communicate over distributed encrypted channels, I share files over BitTorrent, I probe networks, I zap people on nostr, I do all sorts of things the big powers would rather me not be doing, even though they aren't necessarily illegal. I can run literally any sort of software that I like, period, with nobody's permission or even knowledge of the fact. In computing, I take into consideration absolutely nothing that these corporations would prefer that I do. That's pretty cypherpunk, even if I do it all without google explicitly giving me an AMOLED black theme in their operating system. I use one of those too anyway.