Tell you what, you can keep your locked down phone with a lack of side loading and 3rd party stores. Ill enjoy them on my phone and be careful about what I install and not be an idiot.
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Phil Schiller Tweets Link to Mobile Malware Report That Slams Android
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Tell you what, you can keep your locked down phone with a lack of side loading and 3rd party stores. Ill enjoy them on my phone and be careful about what I install and not be an idiot.
I've been on this planet for 36 years, and have never been in a car accident. I guess I'm safe
Let's stick with that analogy for a sec
iOS: A train/subway. You'll get where you want, but you'll have a lot less control along the way.
Android: Either a train/subway like iOS, or if you want, you can drive a car which gives you complete control.
Now comes the shocking statistic! People who drive cars get in 3820340320% more car accidents!!! OMG!! Android must be completely unsafe right? But wait...you could either drive responsibly so you're much less likely to get into an accident...or...I dunno...take the train?
This report is comparing apples to oranges in a huge way. They are also including in the report a lot of stuff that shouldn't be there.
Lets see an app store comparison across the board, Amazon, Google Play, Apple AppStore. The best part for you guys is i'm sure, without a doubt, Apple will still win so you can feel good about it for whatever weird reason you do. Weird since you know, you don't gain anything from your device's competition being worse, on the contrary, you lose.
Because that's the default app store and the others aren't highly popularised. Reading reviews doesn't necessarily guarantee the software is clean though. If a developer is savvy enough to develop malicious software I'm sure they can submit some positive reviews under different names.
Good point, if it were true. A quick Google of 'Malware in Google Play store' brings up a number of very interesting results...
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/...n-your-pc-uses-your-microphone-to-record-you/
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/335628,malware-devs-abuse-google-play-accounts.aspx
http://betanews.com/2013/03/06/happ...n=Feed+-+bn+-+Betanews+Full+Content+Feed+-+BN
Interesting quote from Kaspersky in that second link too:
And that works does it? What about people crashing into you? Or, to bring it back to app stores, malware in the Play Store? Or attached to another, genuine app?
Who needs malware when all you have to do is stick the phone in the freezer for a while :
Researchers bypass Android encryption by exposing phones to freezing temperatures.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...n-by-exposing-phones-to-freezing-temperatures
Researchers bypass Android encryption by exposing phones to freezing temperatures.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...n-by-exposing-phones-to-freezing-temperatures
Maybe you could explain how the "type" of user matters to a discussion about which platform has more malware problems?
Perhaps that's because most people who have malware don't even know it. Until their bank account is empty...
Ains, yap a great threat.
I will tell you a little secret, that finding has nothing to do with Android. But you will have to read the paper to figure it out
Just had a look at the first link and the first comment sums it up really.
Which highlights a point I forgot to mention - Check Permissions! Many apps ive downloaded the developer has explained why each permission is required.
Please think a little more next time. iOS doesn't mean just iPhones, it counts iPod Touches and iPads too. And with those devices into the equation, they are way more "widespread" than Android is.
Whoa, that's freaky. And not that cold. We've had 2 weeks this season where we didn't even break -10C locally.
But you probably represent less than 1% of the Android users. The vast majority of people buying Android and iOS phones are consumers now, not geeks like in the early days of smartphones. These people most definitely are not going to "be safe out there" and will be an "idiot". There are tons of cries about iOS being a closed system and restrictive, and the AppStore is a monopoly and all that crap... but you know what, It friggin works. And average consumers want their stuff to work... not blow up and have all their personal data stolen.
When I was in the AT&T store buying my kids iPhones last year, there were plenty of people around me buying various Android devices too... trust me, there wan't anyone in the bunch that remotely qualified as a geek and likely had no clue how to manage the risks of an open door platform. My favorite was an Asian young lady that was well under 5' tall and playing with her new Samsung Galaxy Note. If I didn't know better, I would have thought it was a sitcom or something because it was gigantic when held to her head. She didn't appear to be someone that was tech savy, but just wanted a big honkin phone.
It doesn't. And the original poster is right. Most (but not all) of the infections from malware are the result of people doing something stupid. But that doesn't mean that it's OK for the platform to be so susceptible to it.
"The seat belts in the car I'm selling break when you need them. But that's OK, because only idiots who run into things will be hurt by it."
I believe its the LG enV 3 actually. But what I find funny is that phone does not run any of the operating systems that this company "secures"
And for users who don't read permissions lists? Yeah, they should, but we all know that people don't, same with software license agreements when installing software on the Desktop.
Does this mean that it's their own fault? Surely this sort of thing wouldn't happen if the stores were policed and sideloading of malicious apps wasn't possible, such as with iOS?
Never understood that logic. Going by your example, Only geeks should have PC's because someone not tech savvy might download malware or a virus.
Personally, I dont care about other peoples usage. My family and I know how to download and use software on our PC's, Laptops and Android devices without getting malware and viruses. Not because were geeks, but because like a lot of people we use common sense!
I have freedom of choice. I choose iOS. You are free to live in squalor if you choose to while I choose to live in a gated community.
Well if they dont want to have a look through a quick list explaining what the app can do, then thats there fault! A quick permission list and a long drawn out software agreement and two different things.
This. So happy I decided to make 2013 the year I decided to not buy an iPhone ever again and bought an Android.
Not worried about malware.
BS two of my residents have the galaxy 3 and they are constantly complaining about the battery life, telling me they have to turn off features in order for the phone to last all day!! I have the iPhone 5 and use it with all the feature constantly on and I can go two days of active use without a charge! In fact when I got my iPhone 5 one of my friends bought my iPhone4s for $200 to replace its his galaxy 3. Fact, he rather have last years iPhone rather than this years Samsung. If you go do a search check out the data for yourself
40% iPhone new users are people switching from Android. At first it seems like a dream you can get an iphone like device for 1/2 the price than they realize why. You get what you pay for as my friend said after he bought my iPhone 4s
"glad to get rid of that plastic junk"