No, that's wishful. The Pixels are the most secure Android phones you can buy, but they are not natively as secure as an iPhone.
But: if it helps put a dumb argument to rest, consider that in the populations being trained, "Android phone" means "phone from an insane variety of vendors, most of whom are not competent to sell or maintain a secure phone".
Pixels are the #1 pick for security, but not with it's default ROM installed.
https://copperhead.co/ is a seriously hardened ROM without google play services and simply having security as a #1 priority.
I don't even know where to start with this but let's just stipulate that when I said "experts can get an Android phone asymptotically as secure as an iPhone", I meant stuff like "people can pick very specific models and then install an entire custom operating system on the phone". I don't actually agree with what you're saying, but the argument will be unproductive, and I think we're close enough that my point stands.
