> "I feel like you're trying to sell the utter lack of a security model as some sort of feature." I'm just describing the way things happened to be back in tha

> "I feel like you're trying to sell the utter lack of a security model as some sort of feature." I'm just describing the way things happened to be back in that era. > "Windows CE just never tried to implement security. Malicious apps had unfettered access to everything, just like in most Windows based ecosystems." Yes, and? That's just as true of early PalmOS and the other early mobile OSes. Security against malicious apps just wasn't a consideration at that time on smartphones/PDAs precisely because there was no app store and no significant quantity of malicious apps.