Please read this entire series of tweets, which starts off looking unrelated but is actually entirely focused on this topic. It was written by me--someone very famous in the security field--and I don't know if anyone in said field who disagreed with the Apple/security sentiments... that Apple was better than Android at malware issues ended 2-3 years ago.
Those tweets make some valid points but it seems like a different topic than what we’ve been discussing. I guess I failed to see the connection to this particular issue.
The culminating moment of all of the security researcher hostility discussion was "The reality is that Apple has been so hostile to independent security research that they've lost their edge: exploits for Android now cost more than exploits for iOS, a reversal experts generally credit to Google correctly allowing researchers open access." https://www.wired.com/story/android-zero-day-more-than-ios-z...
https://mobile.twitter.com/saurik/status/1295024384596312064