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I want random apps on my phone. The computer has all these same risks yet the sky doesn’t fall.

This is the part I wish Apple apologists get. Your precious Macbook Pro allows arbitrary apps to be installed over internet, and that seems to be doing just OK.

They think that every part of apple is fine.

But to be honest, I am in android and I have some deep criticisms of android too. Wish things were more linux like (ie. literally running pure linux in mobile phones), there is pinephone os but I kinda wish that it becomes mainstream enough

Not really. A random app I download from Github Releases can easily ship my ~/.ssh/id_rsa off to some server and I'd never be wiser. That's very hard to do on a phone.

They're not the same thing and treating them as if they are is somewhat naive.

I think the point is that even that threat hasn't rendered MacBooks to be widely deemed insecure or untrustworthy. So, if the threat of similar insecurities were to show up on phones (which is debatable since AFAIK both iOS and Android have substantially different security models compared to traditional desktop OS apps), why would phones suffer a different fate than laptops or desktops?

Android offers that (for the moment).

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