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How is comparing the security of Android, which is a far more open and diverse platform, to Apple, a walled garden, fair at all? And let's not forget about how
by ehsankia 9y ago
How is comparing the security of Android, which is a far more open and diverse platform, to Apple, a walled garden, fair at all? And let's not forget about how Apple happily gives backdoor access to apps like Uber.
- lucideer 9y agoI'm not sure what "fairness" has to do with it. Sure, Apple makes their own life easier in terms of security by applying draconian restrictions on the freedoms of their own users. But this and the fact that things are not as easy for Google to do effective security doesn't make it any less true that they aren't doing it. Again, Apple's Uber backdoor isn't really relevant - I never implied Apple were benign, just that Google's security record is imperfect, and compares poorly. The openness and diversity of Android's platform isn't a wholesale excuse for not securing users.
- s73ver_ 9y agoThey're both smartphone platforms. Of course they're going to be compared to one another.