The public perception has always been that Apple's iPhone is more secure than Google's Android, but Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt wants to set the record straight. During a Q&A session at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner analyst David Willis said, “When you say Android, people say, wait a minute, Android is not secure.” Schmidt quickly said, “Not secure? It's more secure than the iPhone.” followed by the audience chuckling.
Unfortunately Schmidt didn't elaborate other than saying that Android now has one billion users and is a platform that goes through rigorous security testing. He also added that in the distant future security will be implemented on a per app basis since the assumption will be that nothing is secure.
Just before the end of the Q&A, Willis said to Schmidt, “What I heard was Android is more secure than the iPhone,” to which Schmidt replied, “Android is very secure.” Of course, the audience chuckled again and Schmidt replied with, “You will be happier with Gmail, Chrome and Android more than you can possibly imagine.” The audience chuckled some more and Willis (chuckling himself) closed with, “…that makes it a wrap.”
source: ZDNet
My Galaxy S4 is secure enough for my purposes and for me. The latest iPhone probably would be too . But if someone really wanted to hack either phone, I am sure that there is a hacker out there who could and would do it.
The average user should be fine if you have an up to date phone, apply updates to your phone and its applications, and observe some basic security rules about use of the internet and email.
more secure, if you’re lucky enough to own a phone with the latest android perhaps?
Lucky enough? I always find the fragmentation argument silly, most iPhones don’t get newer updates either, you’ll have to buy a more recent device on either side.
Plus it is stupidly simple to download an antivirus if you think you’ll need it (you wont) Nearly all of my friends have android phones as well, I’ve never heard of a single virus problem from anyone (on any phone, android, ios, bb, wp, etc..).
Google play services has made this point basically moot. Many of the more important updates to android are rolled out through play services which resides on 2.3 and up.