Google confirms it’s close to getting Gemini support on iPhones

I'm confused.

First, from the article, my understanding is that Google is talking about providing support for their LLM model on Apple's iOS phones (I assume via querying an off-phone server, rather than locally). This would mean that iOS users have the ability to use Google's LLM model, Gemini, instead of just ChatGPT being available.

The Pixel is an Android phone sold by Google. This isn't the hardware or OS being discussed, and I assume that if you have a Pixel phone, you already have the ability to use Gemini.

Second, I don't see why someone would take issue. I mean, I can see not wanting to use the thing. I don't use Google's off-device speech recognition, because I don't want to send snippits of my voice to Google. I don't use their LLM functionality. I think that there are all sorts of apps, like location-sharing things, that it is a bad idea to install. But it's not like Google providing support on the platform would force you to use the thing.

Third, it sounds like you can use Gemini on grapheneOS. If you object to use of a platform that can make use of Gemini, grapheneOS isn't going to get you there.