These are basic apps in china. Wechat is 99% of people who have phone have wechat. Didi is equivalent or Uber (they even did buy Uber china after they failed) 58 - it’s like Craigslist, Unicom app is like Verizon in us. Geode it’s equivalent to google maps. There are all essential apps used by almost everybody.
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'XcodeGhost' Malware Attack in 2015 Impacted 128 Million iOS Users, According to Trial Documents
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OpenCL was an Apple contribution killed by NVidia. Since no one was moving towards it Apple went on it's own.
How many online banking Apps, for example, do you have installed on your Primary computer, how many social media Apps (not websites) do you have installed ?
The majority of people I personally know have never even synced their phone outside of the cloud. They never use online banking or social media via a desktop browser and their desktops and laptops sole use being used to access cloud services for work (if they have one).
MacOS still only makes up 10% of the OS market. Relative Safety due to (un)popularity is not safe, it's avoidance by sheer luck.
iOS in the US is 50% of the market, and iPad OS has 60%. Those numbers are a far more lucrative market to hit for any would-be malware developer should the floodgates be opened to side loading / root access etc ..
I'm not taking about "some people" I'm talking about the vast majority who's day to day lives revolve around apps on their phones/tablets. Everything from messaging, shopping, contact management, passwords, banking, government services, social media management etc. Sure, if they want to watch a video, type a document or play a game they might open their laptop or desktop (and even then many are browser based services).
Now just for one minute imagine that just ONE dodgy viral app gets installed on couple million mobile devices. One of those people is a buddy of yours that has access to your private profile on FB / Linked in or whatever. Now YOU have also just been compromised by virtue of someone else's stupidity?
Also, it'll be Apple that gets the blame for letting it happen.
My Opinion:
Smartphones / Tablets = Extension of your life and should be locked down as much as possible.
Computers = Extension of your workspace.
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Imagine you installed an app on your Mac for each thing you currently do through a website. That's how iPhones are used. Sandboxing is crucial.
Thank you. I am tired of the ongoing comparison about macOS malware. Computers are NOT smartphones. The single fact alone that I need my phone to be able to call emergency services at any given moment should be enough to have smartphones REQUIRE MORE security than a desktop operating system.
But i get the same **** on my iPhone.
1. Advertising in Apps exists within iOS too. For Example, my TSN app gives me a full screen add frequently when navigating.
2. the links don't typically install thigns on Android phones. They do the same thing they do on iOS devices. they send you to phishing sites in order to put in your credentiall. Sometimes they do have a hijack code involved. This has hit both Android and iOS in the past and has nothing to do with the App Store, Play store or the story in question.
you can protect users without having draconic controls in place.
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The add would pop up from the Home Screen when a call came. Not from within an app. It essentially blocked you from answering the call without being sent to whatever webpage that add linked to. I don’t see that behavior on the fundamental phone “app” on an iPhone.
Links received was to an apk file. Have never owned an android my self so don’t know how it will behave if you click that link, but put it in the hands of a non-tech 70 year old… not good. At least on an iPhone a link to an app on the AppStore would not be likely to install something malicious. Crappy app perhaps, but not malicious.
When you get slammed by a lawsuit you are immediately obligated to provide any material including all emails you have to the complainant. That is why many firms don't store their emails more than a week... LOL
You should have looked into your options more. There are smartphones that allow root control. You shouldn’t have bought one that doesn’t.
Did apple actually send out the email to users that it said it would? The articles linked in macrumors only point to them saying they would in the future. The article from arstechnica paints a different picture that they never actually sent out those emails to inform users that they had downloaded malware. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...g-128-million-iphone-hack-then-decided-not-to