iPhone's long-term future bleak

Chris H. · Sep 14, 2010

iPhone future looks bleak

Is it me or are antivirus companies getting to be a real annoyance?

iggibar · Sep 14, 2010

Now that's a troll of an article!

Ecgþeow · Sep 15, 2010

sounds like this guy is just gushing over open source like most linux users. I've tried linux off and on for the last few years, and it stinks. Open source would be great in a perfect world, but the world is far from perfect. I also doubt the the smartphone will replace the pc. bigger machines will always be able to hold more processing horsepower.

sonoluminescent · Sep 15, 2010

Man. Half of what he says is what any smartphone user with a brain already knows, and the other half of what he says is moot.

1. The iPhone has had a small, small number of security issues that *actually* affect the user. One I can think of off the top of my head, the others to trivial too remember.

2. Android has viruses/malware as well.
First Android Virus
Second SMS Android Trojan targets smut-seeking Russians ? The Register

3. Any security features (hardware security such as bio-ID) that haven't been implemented yet likely will be, as shown in Apple patents.

Blah blah blah

Owing in large part to the security advantages of the Linux platform it's built on, Android offers superior security on several fronts. First, applications are kept separate from each other, and are given a distinct set of permissions governing what they can and can't do. So, an Android user will know that a malicious app is suspicious the moment they try to install it, whereas an iPhone user would have no idea, very likely until the harm is done.

So has this happened to anyone? Why not? If iOS is so unsecure you'd think attackers would, you know, USE that knowledge and they'd be attacking like crazy.

I'm sure Apple only looks for illicit content and doesn't bother looking for malicious code when approving apps.

willmeahl4 · Sep 15, 2010

Read the article. This Kapersky guy is a real one of a kind. Wants to regulate the smartphones like guns? Not even my guns have fingerprint readers or gps yet! What a nut job.

Chris H. · Sep 15, 2010

sonoluminescent said:
Man. Half of what he says is what any smartphone user with a brain already knows, and the other half of what he says is moot.

1. The iPhone has had a small, small number of security issues that *actually* affect the user. One I can think of off the top of my head, the others to trivial too remember.

2. Android has viruses/malware as well.
First Android Virus
Second SMS Android Trojan targets smut-seeking Russians ? The Register

3. Any security features (hardware security such as bio-ID) that haven't been implemented yet likely will be, as shown in Apple patents.

Blah blah blah

So has this happened to anyone? Why not? If iOS is so unsecure you'd think attackers would, you know, USE that knowledge and they'd be attacking like crazy.

I'm sure Apple only looks for illicit content and doesn't bother looking for malicious code when approving apps.

When I read that, I was like "this guy doesn't know Apple very well- or he forgot."

Apple approves these Apps by running it through their system!

dan828 · Sep 16, 2010

sonoluminescent said:
2. Android has viruses/malware as well.
First Android Virus
Second SMS Android Trojan targets smut-seeking Russians

This is just scare mongering, and as much BS as iOS viruses. Not virus at all anyways, it's a Trojan, and to install it, you would have to change default security settings, decide installing a random program from a seedy website was a good idea, and then specifically grant it permission to use services on your device while looking at a warning screen that tells you it will have acsess to services that can cost you money. Iow, you'd have to be a complete moron for that to happen. The equivalent on an iPhone would be installing a random app that you didn't know where it was from after jail breaking. The difference being you wouldn't get the warning screen.

louishen · Sep 16, 2010

Owing in large part to the security advantages of the Linux platform it's built on, Android offers superior security on several fronts. First, applications are kept separate from each other, and are given a distinct set of permissions governing what they can and can't do. So, an Android user will know that a malicious app is suspicious the moment they try to install it, whereas an iPhone user would have no idea, very likely until the harm is done.

Sorry!! Permissions, the security advantages of the Linux, I think the writer doesn't seem to be aware that the iOS is built upon MacOS, which like Linux is a Unix based OS with just that type of security infrastructure he seems to think the iPhone lacks

the8thark · Sep 16, 2010

The article Author also forgets to mention the App approval process. If there s any malicious code in it, it will probably be picked up by Apple and will be banned from the App store. Sure the fart apps get through but they are just dumb, not iphone breaking. The real dangerous code is kept away by Apple.

And does Android have such an app approval process to weed out the ban the malicious apps from it's store?