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Eric Schmidt Says Android is 'More Secure Than The iPhone', Prompting Laughter
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Android OEMs have the choice to implant security features on Hardware or Software. Many of them in order to save cost choose to use software instead of chips making it easier to hack (for example where all your passwords are saved!)
Yeah maybe in full specs and none modified ROM Android stands a better chance but not after what the OEMs do with it
Yeah maybe in full specs and none modified ROM Android stands a better chance but not after what the OEMs do with it
I don't see where he was saying iOS is not secure?
People are so quick to defend Apple at every opportunity that they don't even read posts in full before jumping to post about how much better iOS is.
You are right, random internet person... All these security developers at the conference laughing don't know what they are laughing about.
Of course he is correct
Like every leader with a house of risky card, he won't lie, right?
Just like when Kenneth Lay talk about Enron in 2001
"There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues. I think I can honestly say that the company(Enron) is probably in the strongest and best shape that it has probably ever been in."
Or the most famous sentences in 1998:
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
BTW: Anyone want to buy some Google stock? I want to sell now.
Like every leader with a house of risky card, he won't lie, right?
Just like when Kenneth Lay talk about Enron in 2001
"There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues. I think I can honestly say that the company(Enron) is probably in the strongest and best shape that it has probably ever been in."
Or the most famous sentences in 1998:
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
BTW: Anyone want to buy some Google stock? I want to sell now.
This is the type of news that requires a video embedded!
Absolutely! I'd love to see a video of this audience smackdown.
ES looks and sounds like a psychopathic douchebag turd. The sort of person that lies and steals to fuel his ego and position and manipulates those around him to bend them to his will. The sort of person that can't be trusted.
Funny thing is, he is correct.
iPhone: 304 exploits
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/15556/Apple-Iphone-Os.html?vendor_id=49
Android: 29 exploits
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/19997/Google-Android.html?vendor_id=1224
iPhone: 304 exploits
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/15556/Apple-Iphone-Os.html?vendor_id=49
Android: 29 exploits
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/19997/Google-Android.html?vendor_id=1224
Tech Joke
still very funny since the introduction of android will still be funny for many years to come
still very funny since the introduction of android will still be funny for many years to come
I had to laugh too when reading.
I have to use Android due to business reasons - almost every app is forbidden due to security concerns. Once this ecosystem is installed with no entry to the Playstore at all, yes it is almost safe
Loved my iPhone....
I have to use Android due to business reasons - almost every app is forbidden due to security concerns. Once this ecosystem is installed with no entry to the Playstore at all, yes it is almost safe
Loved my iPhone....
A tech savvy person doesn't have to customize his/her phone, but omitting such features do no favors to a savvy individual. Instead, it protects the general consumer from messing with settings they have no idea about
I personally don't care for themes... But it would be nice to have root access to my phone and to be able to make simple modifications like changing default applications. Being able to side load apps is also handy. I also like having some choice as to what the capabilities of the phone are (obviously not as much as a PC).
For whatever it's worth, I only own iOS devices so far (though I am borrowing my uncle's spare VZW GS3 for his unlimited LTE tethering while I travel)
I think we're being punked. I think it was Schmidt from "New Girl," because he's got all sorts of Schmidt on his face from saying that.
This is the worst article I've ever read. It is unclear in many ways. Also, you should state who the DB is.
He must have never used Chrome on a Nexus 7 (2012). What a flaming pile. It took like a year for Google to fix most of the problems, but even on a Nexus 7 (2013) there are still some sites that Chrome chokes on. The same sites that the old Android Browser displays with ease.
Eric Schmidt is in his own Reality Distortion Feild
He had a great example in Steve Jobs.
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Provide the URL's for proof. Sounds like someone's telling stories. I have 2012 & 2013 Nexus 7's my experience has been quite good.
This. The thing about an open source platform is that it's much more secure simply because exploits are found constantly and patched (short zero days). With a closed platform, the company has to wait for the exploits and patch them as they come up (long zero days). Just look at Linux vs. Windows, open-source always wins in terms of security. What you are all laughing at and referring to is not an exploit, but a failure on OEM's side to use the more secure platform effectively. By forking and closing their own versions of Android, they effectively eliminate the aforementioned benefit. iOS is more intuitive in creating a secure environment for the end user and I'd say that's much more important. Schmidt was getting off on a technicality in this case and it really only applies to stock Google phones.
Couldn't happen to a nicer suit.
Every time I see Eric Schmidt, I just think of what Google used to be like prior to 2005 or so, before his influence in the company became a lot more apparent and Google took such a hard turn toward being yet another corporate America behemoth. Google was truly more Apple-ish than Apple was back then, but they somehow lost their way and turned into something a lot more like Microsoft. Hard not to lay that at Schmidt's feet. Just makes me sad.
Every time I see Eric Schmidt, I just think of what Google used to be like prior to 2005 or so, before his influence in the company became a lot more apparent and Google took such a hard turn toward being yet another corporate America behemoth. Google was truly more Apple-ish than Apple was back then, but they somehow lost their way and turned into something a lot more like Microsoft. Hard not to lay that at Schmidt's feet. Just makes me sad.
I remember touring Google with a friend who once worked there back in the "early" years. The campus reminded me of a cross between Pixar and Apple; everyone was casual, friendly (almost like a family), beautiful campus with "sleep pods" for napping or quiet work, younger general employee base who worked hard and was very creative yet laid back. It was Disney World for the IT industry.
I can still screw up ESPN.com. Scroll up and down. Be amazed by the random delay. Be amazed by the poor touch detection. You want more foot-in-your mouth?
And yes, I do own a Nexus 7 (2013).