Android is "safer than iPhone", or so says Eric Schmidt ... - Applesfera

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Google CEO , Eric Schmidt, is an expert when it comes to throwing the wind and made phrases Swedish explanations when asked to support them. You know, Android did not copy the iPhone, Apple is jealous and lacks innovation and all those things. The last? Android is more secure than the iPhone, and it has reached 1000 million users.

public laughter give us a clue about how to react to this statement free (losing strength in Schmidt’s own voice before you even finish the sentence), born in response to the interviewer’s questions about the safety Gartner of Google’s mobile platform. But if you have doubts, perhaps useful to recall a few minor details:

1 billion reached by Android activations are fine and certainly offer the company a good testing in the real world. Sure the 700 million activations are also iOS feat, do not you think? And considering that there is no chaos of manufacturers, models and versions of Android, the base point on which detect and correct security flaws in any case going to Apple (another thing is that resolved with speed they should, then yes, slap on the wrist for the boys in Cupertino).
• But leaving aside these parameters as caught by the hair as the relationship between security and activations, how about if we go over the figures of malware? That is, the actual and tangible security or lack of it on a day to day users. The result? Android recorded on August 1, 79% of all detected threats by the Departments of Homeland Security and the U.S. Justice compared to 0.7% for iOS. Do not you Fiais from government sources? Okay, Juniper Networks ensures that the percentages are distributed actually delivering 92% of all malware known 276 259 mobile with malicious apps in March 2013 is now likely to be many more.

No system is absolutely safe but even with all the virtues of Android, in this field not even play in the same league. Neither the number of threats, and in their different approaches to the ecosystem of applications, or indeed in the rate of adoption of the latest versions, those that just have the latest security patches.

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7 has even widened the gap in this respect, both as regards the operating system (not even a month has passed since its launch and is now estimated that about 70% of the active devices) and in their apps (thanks to automatic updates clueless proof). So the only possible conclusion is that no, Android is not safer than the iPhone . Or at least not until someone shows up with something that at least makes sense.

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