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>Remember the viruses and trojans and instability and all the rest of the Windows days, or Android? The era you are referencing was two decades ago and those p
by Sargos 6y ago
>Remember the viruses and trojans and instability and all the rest of the Windows days, or Android?
The era you are referencing was two decades ago and those problems stemmed from development processes that didn't take security into consideration since it was mostly written in pre-internet days and worked well in that environment. Once Microsoft took security seriously things got better. Windows is -still- an open platform where you can run anything you want and you don't see rampant viruses/trojans etc. It works very well now and still has the same openness properties as before.
Android has security issues just like Apple but it's never been a huge problem. The fact that you put Android in that sentence makes me scratch my head a bit. Android is on the same level as iOS on pretty much every metric.
- LexGray 6y agoOriginally the carriers were terrified of app stores because there would be cell network hacking tools and service disrupting network traffic. A vast majority of malware on macOS now comes from pirate apps stores via torrents. Much of the current App Store design is based on those concerns and the current iOS sandbox is still a long way from preventing those abuses.
- freehunter 6y agoPretty much every metric except how much malware is available on the store.