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Your post contains the implicit assumption that "really hideous malware" will strike the Android platform before it does the iPhone, which is the necessary cond
by darkandbrooding 16y ago
Your post contains the implicit assumption that "really hideous malware" will strike the Android platform before it does the iPhone, which is the necessary condition for Jobs to say "I told you so." (I make the assumption that Jobs would not be able to credibly deliver that line if iOS became a malware target before Android did.)
I don't own an Android phone, and am only superficially familiar with its OS or software stack. Do you think that the Android OS is architecturally more susceptible to malware than iOS? If not, do you think that Android's application distribution model is more likely to get malware onto people's phones that Apple's highly restrictive one?
- CamperBob 16y agoI don't own an Android phone, and am only superficially familiar with its OS or software stack. Do you think that the Android OS is architecturally more susceptible to malware than iOS? If not, do you think that Android's application distribution model is more likely to get malware onto people's phones that Apple's highly restrictive one? That's my understanding, yes. However, unlike a lot of people including Jobs, I don't see the ability to write deceptive malware for a platform as a "bug." People need to challenge this assumption early and often.