I might partially agree, but the market already has a fantastic, secure option for those users: Apple.
Android's value was always in being the open(ish) alternative. When we lose that choice and the whole world adopts one philosophy, the ecosystem becomes brittle.
We saw this with the Bell monopoly, which held up telephone innovation for three quarters of a century.
In the short term, some users are safer. In the medium term, all users suffer from the lack of competition and innovation that a duopoly of walled gardens will create.
Android's value was always in being the open(ish) alternative. When we lose that choice and the whole world adopts one philosophy, the ecosystem becomes brittle.
We saw this with the Bell monopoly, which held up telephone innovation for three quarters of a century.
In the short term, some users are safer. In the medium term, all users suffer from the lack of competition and innovation that a duopoly of walled gardens will create.