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by alasdair_ 3391 days ago
>2) The other choice is a device made by a Chinese or Korean company with a semi-open operating system made by a US company.

All iPhones are made in China by a Chinese company.

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What are the options for someone who wants a fully trusted supply chain? Is there a modern smartphone made with provably secure hardware (and which I can verify is actually running that hardware and not some behave-alike SOC)?

From my somewhat-naive perspective, it seems like the alternative is an Android phone made in China by a Chinese company, which seems not obviously superior.

They are made by Foxconn, which is a Taiwanese company.
Does that make it meaningfully better?