>Why do we only hear stories like this about Apple and the iPhone? How secure is Android? When the story broke in 2016, only about 10% of Android phones were e

>Why do we only hear stories like this about Apple and the iPhone? How secure is Android? When the story broke in 2016, only about 10% of Android phones were encrypted vs about 95% of iPhones. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/03/why-are-so-few-android-phones-encrypted-and-should-you-encrypt-yours/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/03/why-are-so-few-andro... At that time, Apple had included dedicated hardware in their SOC to handle device encryption for several generations, but enabling a software implementation of device encryption on Android caused performance penalties. >there's a very significant performance penalty that comes with enabling FDE, with a 62.9% drop in random read performance, a 50.5% drop in random write performance, and a staggering 80.7% drop in sequential read performance. https://www.anandtech.com/show/8725/encryption-and-storage-performance-in-android-50-lollipop https://www.anandtech.com/show/8725/encryption-and-storage-p...