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Eric Schmidt called Android a more secure mobile operating environment than the iPhone today during a 45-minute question-and-answer session at the Gartner Symposium / ITxpo, reports ZDNet. The answer came when Schmidt was prompted by a Gartner analyst:
Gartner analyst David Willis, who is chief of research for mobility and communications and who runs Gartner's Senior Research Board, said to Schmidt: "If you polled many people in this audience they would say Google Android is not their principal platform [...] When you say Android, people say, wait a minute, Android is not secure."
Schmidt immediately responded, saying "Not secure? It's more secure than the iPhone", which reportedly prompted laughter from the audience. He then noted that Android had over a billion users, is a platform that will be around for a long time and how that means the platform has gone through rigorous real-world security testing.

At the end of the session Schmidt once again referred to Android as secure, causing the audience to laugh. He then paused and told the audience they'd be happier using services like Android, Chrome and Gmail, prompting more laughter.

Back in March, Apple SVP Phil Schiller tweeted out a "Mobile Threat Report" by F-Secure which showed that Android accounted for 79 percent of the 301 mobile threats in 2012, while iOS only accounted for 0.7 percent of mobile threats.

Security is a major point of interest for enterprise users and as iOS is looked upon as the more secure mobile platform Apple has seen itself dominate the mobile enterprise space, with one February report claiming iOS represents as much as 77 percent of mobile device activations in the enterprise market.

Article Link: Eric Schmidt Says Android is 'More Secure Than The iPhone', Prompting Laughter
 

Spetsnazos

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Apple deniers in full force but as a dev he is right. The only time security becomes an issue with android is with custom roms kernels and radios.

iOS just can't be customized at all. Most stock roms on android are super secure, very similar to iOS.

iOS is designed primarily for the average non Savvy user but that's fine it's a good OS for day to day tasks.
 

Klae17

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He's as delusional as some people on this board. The Samsung fans ring a bell.
 

bmunge

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Apple deniers in full force but as a dev he is right. The only time security becomes an issue with android is with custom roms kernels and radios.

iOS just can't be customized at all. Most stock roms on android are super secure, very similar to iOS.

iOS is designed primarily for the average non Savvy user but that's fine it's a good OS for day to day tasks.

Why do you believe that iOS is designed for non savvy users? Having a device that works great, is consistent, powerful, and polished isn't something the tech savvy are interested in? Okay...
 

haruhiko

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Apple deniers in full force but as a dev he is right. The only time security becomes an issue with android is with custom roms kernels and radios.

iOS just can't be customized at all. Most stock roms on android are super secure, very similar to iOS.

iOS is designed primarily for the average non Savvy user but that's fine it's a good OS for day to day tasks.
You missed side loading of apps (outside of the Google Play store) which doesn't require being "tech savvy" to do so.

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He also believes the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.

It depends on how do you define the words east and west. If you're in a culture that calls the direction that the sun rises to be west and where it sets to be west, so be it. In Mr. Schmidt's world, secure is insecure and insecure is secure. ;) In this sense Android is surely more "secure" than the iPhone in Schmidt's dictionary.

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And to think that he used to be on the Board at Apple and Jobs introduced him during the 2007 iPhone unveiling.

He alone was the biggest security loophole in Apple.
 

mr.bee

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Apple deniers in full force but as a dev he is right. The only time security becomes an issue with android is with custom roms kernels and radios.

iOS just can't be customized at all. Most stock roms on android are super secure, very similar to iOS.

iOS is designed primarily for the average non Savvy user but that's fine it's a good OS for day to day tasks.

Yes, apps are less tech savvy on iOS because we SUMMON them and don't develop them.

Also, we truly do need that level of control to be tech savvy and create great things
 

TrashCanBin

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Apple deniers in full force but as a dev he is right. The only time security becomes an issue with android is with custom roms kernels and radios.

iOS just can't be customized at all. Most stock roms on android are super secure, very similar to iOS.

iOS is designed primarily for the average non Savvy user but that's fine it's a good OS for day to day tasks.

Schmidt joking was enough. Thank you.
 

locust76

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Why do you believe that iOS is designed for non savvy users? Having a device that works great, is consistent, powerful, and polished isn't something the tech savvy are interested in? Okay...

Because all a "tech savvy" person wants to do is dick around customizing their phone all day long, obviously!

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Also, we truly do need that level of control to be tech savvy and create great things

Didn't you know? "Tech savvy" == customized phones!
 

Yamcha

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I'm by no means an expert, but because Android is a open platform, naturally it'll be at the cost of some security.

But as an Android user, I appreciate some of the things that can only be done on the Android platform because it is open.

It must be said though, I'd say Android can certainly be as secure as iOS provided users take some precaution's and download primarily from the play store.

But there is no doubt that in theory and probably even in real world scenario iOS may be the more secure platform at this time.
 

viperGTS

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Prompting Laughter

"Schmidt immediately responded, saying "Not secure? It's more secure than the iPhone", which reportedly prompted laughter from the audience. He then noted that Android had over a billion users, is a platform that will be around for a long time and how that means the platform has gone through rigorous real-world security testing.

At the end of the session Schmidt once again referred to Android as secure, causing the audience to laugh. He then paused and told the audience they'd be happier using services like Android, Chrome and Gmail, prompting more laughter."

I don't think Schmidt would just mention all of Google's services for laughter.
 

SeattleMoose

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ES is a pizza-faced little worm who sat on the board of Apple while the iPhone/iOS was being developed and then a few months before it launches...ES suddenly quits the Apple board. iPhone comes out and then SURPRISE!!!....the first Google Android phone with a look and feel a LOT like an iPhone comes out. ES was simply a Google "mole" who infiltrated Apple to try and steal the crown jewels.

But of course....Google invented the smartphone (as well as the internet) and Apple copied them. Ask any fandroid...they'll tell you. It is all "fact".. :rolleyes:
 

MacsRgr8

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Apple deniers in full force but as a dev he is right. The only time security becomes an issue with android is with custom roms kernels and radios.

iOS just can't be customized at all. Most stock roms on android are super secure, very similar to iOS.

iOS is designed primarily for the average non Savvy user but that's fine it's a good OS for day to day tasks.

LOL, another fandroid on MacRumors.

Please take some time in learning about the security of iOS devices.
 
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