I had my own reasons to believe that it was an iPhone, which I explained above.
As for my semi-sarcastic reply about “balance” to the post that called me an “Apple hater," take a look at this:
I pointed out the fact that Apple applies proprietary DRM to all of the apps on the App Store. Because of that, Signal can’t provide reproducible builds for iOS. You also can’t use some licenses if you want to publish your app to the App Store:
And my criticism got classified as “random Apple hate." This is pure and factual criticism, not hate. Everyone is free to look up the definitions of criticism and hate.
Also, both people who classified my posts about Apple as hate are using multiple Apple products, just something to think about.