Meh, it’s only a phone and Apple is no government. I wouldn’t want my government to be run by Apple – and luckily they don’t. I’m ok with buying their phones. I

Meh, it’s only a phone and Apple is no government. I wouldn’t want my government to be run by Apple – and luckily they don’t. I’m ok with buying their phones. I’m more than happy to give up that particular freedom for that particular comfortableness and as long as there are viable alternatives – as long as iPhones aren’t the only smart phones I can buy – I see nothing whatsoever wrong with that position. But that’s rather beside the point. I think it is important that both Apple and Google have infrastructure in place to stop malware from ever reaching their stores and to remove it if it does. One of the reasons why Google I/O and Apple’s WWDC were both sold out within less than a day is that people love apps on mobile devices and I’m willing to speculate that the reasons for that are that apps are easy to install and delete, cheap and you can trust them. That last point is important. Malware is rare to non-existing in app stores, people consequently don’t have to think before installing (as they have to when downloading software from the web). They don’t have to fear software (as many do on the web).