Your point is that the device doesn't matter. If Khashoggi and his fiance had Android devices and used an encrypted messaging app such as Signal (or something similar like Session, Briar, etc.) his abduction would not have occurred as it did (even if MBS and his cohorts had control of an operator at the telecom).

As I said, the zero-click exploit is exclusive to iPhones using iMessage. An Android device that receives a similar SMS requires the user's knowledge and willful intent in order to activate. The last zero-click SMS exploit had been patched back in 2015.

So the device (and protocol) does actually matter.

No, it doesn’t.

It was said that He would be alive if He wasn’t using an iPhone. This is stupid.

The end objective is that Saudi Intel wanted him dead.

If He used Android, an Android zero day might have been used, of which there are many.

In this case, He used an iPhone. A different phone, or no phone, would have made no difference to a state level actor.