The security of an iPhone is completely dependent on what Apple decides to do with iCloud and with the applications that come from the app store. Sure, Apple ma

The security of an iPhone is completely dependent on what Apple decides to do with iCloud and with the applications that come from the app store. Sure, Apple may be more secure against $random_blackhat, but the user still isn't in control of what is happening on their phone. Most users care much more about the decisions that Apple and Google make with their data than they are about $random_blackhat. Even more, a lot of the security features you mentioned are very difficult for an open source phone to achieve because the hardware ecosystem is so endemically closed source and proprietary. We can fix that by pushing hard for open source hardware that starts to make inroads and break those barriers down.