I would argue that Android is safer, specifically from 0days. Anyone with Android 6.0 or later (a 2015 OS) gets Chrome updates. Those updates are fast, automat

I would argue that Android is safer, specifically from 0days. Anyone with Android 6.0 or later (a 2015 OS) gets Chrome updates. Those updates are fast, automatic, and transparently happen in the background, with no user input or downtime (e.g. need to restart). They're also not arbitrarily delayed to fit into with some rigid OS update release schedule, like iOS or macOS. That's especially important in this era where people are skeptical of updates, or just too busy, and keep delaying and skipping updates. Every time I use a family member's device, and check the version, I see they haven't updated in months. Many aren't even aware there are updates available. I told the story before, but my grandma only has 4G, no Wi-Fi, and only has an iPhone, no laptop to download IPSWs from (and obviously average users can't do that); therefore she only gets iOS updates when I visit once or twice a year. Is Apple happy with that? Provocatively: is that the best they can do? Google proves it's not. Sure, the Android OS update situation isn't great, but your biggest 0day exposures will be apps exposed to the internet (Chrome, chat apps) and those all get regular, transparent background updates with no user input; and Android users are much safer for it, than they'd be if Google imitated Apple's OS update strategy. This is an Apple-wide problem, not just iOS. Anyone with OS X El Capitan 10.11 or later (again, a 2015 OS) is running the latest Google Chrome. Yet their Safari version is riddled with catastrophic 0day bugs (which can now be called 1,314-day bugs, since there have been 1,314 days since the last El Capitan security update). Add to that the fact that Apple doesn't really support "n-2" OSes with security updates, as tech people say, since their unstated policy seems to be that only bugs which Apple thinks are "exploited in the wild" will be backported to any OS that isn't the very latest; most (not all) other known security patches are never backported.[0] Apple's security stance is much worse than Microsoft's or Google's when comparing Apples to Apples. [0]: https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/apples-poor-patching-policies-potentially-make-users-security-and-privacy-precarious/ https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/apples-poor-patchin...