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You don't seem to get my point and seem to think that I'm some apple fanboy that you need to convince or win against.

I use android, I've never used iOS. I enjoy the freedom of sideloading. Still it is a fact that the overwhelming majority of malware infections on Android happen due to side loading. The percentage of devices running corporate MDM is tiny, making this a moot point.

The vast majority of Android phones do not come with root access. For both, you generally have to elevate access yourself

And yet quite a few devices in the wild run rooted or custom ROMs.

If you're running an out-of-date OS, clearly security is not a priority

You seem to forget what this thread is about. It's not about personal security and whether one can run a safe android device, but about an app developer not providing an Android version, because the platform as a whole (meaning the average user) is less secure.

Personal preferences like paying for a new, non-outdated phone don't really matter for that big picture view.

Supply chain attacks absolutely can happen to iPhones as well. There are plenty of re-sellers

That's a strange argument. Getting malware that survives a factory reset onto an iPhone without apple's approval is close to impossible. Making an Android phone from scratch that contains malware right in the system image has been done over and over again. You are argueing a hypothetical versus something that happens every day.