Google sent more than 50,000 state sponsored attack warnings in 2021. And those warnings started in 2012. So a lot of people have been helped. Meanwhile Apple didn't start doing similar warnings until less than a year ago.
> Apple is in the process of giving a few hundred million iPhone owners
Um, no? Lockdown mode is explicitly for "very few users". There's no way a hundred million iPhone users would benefit. Google's Advanced Protection offers protection from state-level actors to anyone with a Google account, so if you want to count by the number of people offered optional protection, Google wins by a landslide.
> for free
Haha, no, you have to buy an iPhone from Apple first. Google offers protection to anyone actually for free. All you need is a free Google account and a security key which doesn't have to be purchased from Google.
The point is the several hundreds of millions of existing Apple customers who own an iPhone 8 or newer are going to get Lockdown Mode in the next version of iOS for those "who may be at risk of highly targeted cyberattacks from private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary spyware" at no cost.
While it's true that very few iPhone users should ever need to activate this feature for the described use case, Apple has already indicated there will be more features added in the future where this could change.
There are likely additional use cases where an iPhone user may want to activate Lockdown Mode, such as traveling to an authoritarian country.
This article makes the argument that Lockdown Mode could benefit iPhone users who never activate it. [1]
> Apple is in the process of giving a few hundred million iPhone owners
Um, no? Lockdown mode is explicitly for "very few users". There's no way a hundred million iPhone users would benefit. Google's Advanced Protection offers protection from state-level actors to anyone with a Google account, so if you want to count by the number of people offered optional protection, Google wins by a landslide.
> for free
Haha, no, you have to buy an iPhone from Apple first. Google offers protection to anyone actually for free. All you need is a free Google account and a security key which doesn't have to be purchased from Google.