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Android at 10: How Google won the smartphone wars

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Horsecrap

"and every word above that describes Windows in 2003 also applies to Android today."

Android isn't insecure, it's very secure. This doesn't fit very well with the clickbaiters and anti-virus industry desperate to cash in, but it's the truth.

Android gets monthly patches, delivered in a timely manner to 1st party devices, (if you were stupid enough to buy 2nd party, or even 3rd paty device, that is not Google, nor Android's fault).

Android has had proper application sandboxing from the outset, it's had a very good permissions based system, it's had a application store locked down by default. Windows had NONE of these things.

With more active Android devices that Windows, you would thin malware would be widespread, however pretty much every story in the media is purely hypothetical, here in the real world, nobody ever sees real world problems.

Whilst Windows has been the malware cesspool since the beginning of the Internet, and continues to be, even in Windows 10, whilst Android security problems are pretty much non existent..

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