Respectfully, this is easy: get a better phone and turn autoupdate on.

Also respectfully, he stated patched daily. Generally, security updates for both iOS and Android devices happen in a monthly roll-up.

If your checklist for being "secure" involves being up-to-date, there is no amount of 'getting a better phone' that will put it on par with a desktop OS that receives daily patches.

This is simply not true. No matter how often you patch your Linux desktop, it is less secure than an iPhone.

Conflating secure with up-to-date is wrong in such a broad and sweeping statement such as 'your Linux desktop is always less secure than an iPhone'.

Updates software does not instantly mean more secure, which I am sure you are aware of.

As you stated, for the generalists, yes, an out-of-the-box iPhone has more hardening than an OOTB Linux desktop, but for the type of person on HN, this is not necessarily true at all. There are too many variables.

I disagree, but that's fine.