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 In his defense, the device he's advocating for isn't produced by an advertising company with documented deep state connections, but rather, a company that has actually stood up in court against demands that it install backdoors to circumvent its user privacy measures.

Can't say I'm fond of either option, at least, with the stock OS, but either can work in a limited scope provided you're aware of the limitations. 
 I don't think you can trust any mass-produced western-market consumer electronics 
 I'd tend to agree, particularly after the PETN terrorist attacks carried out by the Zionist forces. But there are shades of grey; while Apple will almost certainly get out of the way for a deep state request, even if they'll push back on normal law enforcement, their business model doesn't rely on collecting, packaging, and using your personal data in order to craft a profile of you in order to target you with advertising.  The difference in incentives results in a somewhat different result when you get to actually using the software. Even Windows historically hasn't felt quite as intrusive as Android/ChromeOS in that regard, though things do feel like they've been changing over the last decade or so there. If I had to pick hardware that was least likely to be compromised, and software to install on it, I'd honestly probably be looking at Pine64.org and one of the few Linux distros that is non-systemd and as barebones as possible, or possibly a BSD.  

At the end of the day its all about what trade offs you're willing to make, and what you're doing with the device. And even if you were to get something that would be as close to perfect as possible, simply not showing up on the radar of the more surveilled ecosystem is a flag in and of itself that makes you more interesting to target.

I guess all of this just to illustrate that yes, I'm a paranoid crypto anarchist.