A very tired “red versus blue” take here.

There are plenty of Android/Windows things that Apple has had for $today-5 years that work the exact same way.

One side isn’t better than the other, it’s really just that they copy each other doing various things at a different pace or arrive at that point in different ways.

Some examples:

- Android is/was years behind on granular permissions, e.g. ability to grant limited photo library access to apps

- Android has no platform-wide equivalent to AirTags

- Hardware-backed key storage (Secure Enclave about 5 years ahead of StrongBox)

- system-wide screen recording

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fennecbutt 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Android is an OS, not hardware tho so some of those can't really be judged equivalently.

	▲	dangus 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Half of my examples were 100% software based, and this list is by no means comprehensive. Google has been making their own phone hardware since 2010. And surely they can call up Qualcomm and Samsung if they want to.