Comment by microtonal

0days does not matter for them!

This does not make much sense at all and is also not in line with empirics. It does not make much sense, because if flagship Android's security reputation worsens, more high-value customers (which are interesting to ad publishers) will go to iPhone. I think this is already an issue for Google because the most popular iPhones are all flagship models, whereas the most popular Android models are low- to mid-range Samsung A series:

https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-smartpho...

This reduces the opportunity for Google to extract money from their ecosystem (Ads, Google One, etc.) and gives it to Apple.

Second, it does not line up with empirics, because after Apple, Google has been the manufacturers most aggressively pushing hardware security. E.g. Pixels have had a Titan M secure enclave for a long time now (most Android manufacturers do not have any and rely on TrustZone), Google Pixel was one of the first devices to adopt memory tagging (MTE), etc. They do a lot of work to try to reduce the blast radius of 0-days, there is a reason why e.g. GrapheneOS has so far only supported Google Pixel devices.

The problem is more the lack of privacy.