Brother in christ, how hard is this to understand.

Updates aren’t forced

How do you know? Have you checked the code that runs the updates? Just because the phone usually gives you the option to postpone regular updates doesnt mean that they cant be forced.

They also cannot affect user data.

What makes you believe that? Did you write the software that keeps it sandboxed?

Do people just believe anything that companies claim? If we could believe the things that companies claim, then the world would be a much nicer place but its not.

If its not proven, then its not the case as far as anyone should be concerned. Do we believe in religion now because the pope says that god is real?

And i havent even talked about code quality. Nobody can verify how well designed their software is. It could be a complete shitfest filled with old and insecure code that nobody does any auditing on.

Updates aren’t forced.

No. Apple claims updates aren't forced. With proprietary software, we have no way to verify if they have some way of forcing an update through.

You have the ability to enable automatic updates, but they are turned off by default.

No. Apple claims that only the user can enable automatic updates. With proprietary software, we have no way to verify if Apple can enable them remotely.

Also, are you really going tell users to not update?

They also cannot affect user data. iOS and app software is sandboxed. The kernel keeps application and OS layers independent, just like Linux.

No. Apple claims that updates cannot affect user data. Again, with proprietary software, there is no way to truly verify.

Apple users will experience the same thing that all other computer owners experience when they disable updates entirely; outdated security software and limited compatibility.

Oh...so updates are good now, and we should update, even if it puts us at risk of something malicious?

You are taking Apple's claims as truth and pretending they are good. They probably aren't.

But, as someone else mentioned in the thread: The US government can force companies to spy for them. Even if Apple was as good as they market themselves to be, they cannot outrun the government.

Now, it's not realistic to force everybody to switch away from iPhones. But, we should stop treating proprietary software as truly trustworthy with our data.