No nerdy guy pushes apple for security and privacy. It is all closed source with data leaking by default - partially not possible to turn off.
They rather push devices like librem 5, Pine phone, Fairphone with /e/os, but not Apple...
They rather push devices like librem 5, Pine phone, Fairphone with /e/os, but not Apple...
As the parent commenter noted, Apple was really one of the only reasonable recommendations from privacy-oriented nerdy guys to their friends and family, if they didn't want to go the out-of-touch-with-reality route by recommending the phones you listed.