From watching his videos, he's an Apple guy for his personal devices, though his server infrastructure (and also the bulk of the devices he reviews and experiments with ) are Linux machines.

Well, cause the current linux phone ecosystem is a wasteland.

Pine sucked all the oxygen out of the environment, with a shit dead-on-arrival product. Pinephone doent even work as a bloody phone.

Other Linux phones are 2-3 generations old, and priced at $700 or so.

So, we're stuck with Apple or Google. Not great choices either way.