I run Perplexity in place of Gemini, but I can also run Claude and others.
[1] https://i.imgur.com/BgvxqQQ.png
Apple is just being the usual Apple being both an hardware vendor and giving it's own software advantages that competitors don't have and using the security bogus argument as always.
And yet, people believe that crap and jump into defending Apple as if being an Apple user is their identity, sad.