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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1488732" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2012/07/06/first-ios-malware-hits-app-store/" target="_blank">No</a> <a href="http://www.redmondpie.com/another-malware-app-sneaks-into-ios-app-store/" target="_blank">malware</a> <a href="http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/08/29/finfisher-malware-goes-mobile-infects-android-iphone-blackberry/" target="_blank">whatsoever</a>.</p><p></p><p>Tell that to the multiple devices I own that happily run the same app.Larger selection? Not according to just about every measure out there (which suggests that both are about the same size). See <a href="http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2012/10/30/ios-and-android-app-stores-now-tied-with-700000-apps-each/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p></p><p>That might be why the three Android devices I own have never crashed (nor has iOS). Sure, this is subjective - I can't prove that one is inherently more stable than the other but neither can you.</p><p></p><p>No harder than Apple pushes iCloud. Once you skip logging into Google during initial setup, you are no more tied to Google than you are to Apple with an iPhone.</p><p></p><p>Android actually allows you to use competing products, not just shells for Cocoa Touch components and lets users change default applications. Take web browsing for a moment. In iOS, you're stuck with Safari however you look at it since all browsers have to rely on Cocoa Touch's WebKit component (since using another rendering engine would contravene the App Store's rule about interpretation of code). On Android, I can use different browsers than aren't just skins for an underlying set of components. This is why I can use Chrome, Firefox or Opera (not Mini which is hardly a browser at all) and set it as a default.</p><p></p><p>I could happily go about my day using Firefox or Opera and never see Google once. I could happily download a third party email client and never have Google register in my consciousness. You seem to have a very interesting view as to how far Google reaches into the everyday Android experience.</p><p></p><p>Good point, but where are these knockoffs?</p><p></p><p>Because surely iOS has never tried to be like Android at any point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1488732, member: 71075"] [URL="http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2012/07/06/first-ios-malware-hits-app-store/"]No[/URL] [URL="http://www.redmondpie.com/another-malware-app-sneaks-into-ios-app-store/"]malware[/URL] [URL="http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/08/29/finfisher-malware-goes-mobile-infects-android-iphone-blackberry/"]whatsoever[/URL]. Tell that to the multiple devices I own that happily run the same app.Larger selection? Not according to just about every measure out there (which suggests that both are about the same size). See [URL="http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2012/10/30/ios-and-android-app-stores-now-tied-with-700000-apps-each/"]here[/URL]. That might be why the three Android devices I own have never crashed (nor has iOS). Sure, this is subjective - I can't prove that one is inherently more stable than the other but neither can you. No harder than Apple pushes iCloud. Once you skip logging into Google during initial setup, you are no more tied to Google than you are to Apple with an iPhone. Android actually allows you to use competing products, not just shells for Cocoa Touch components and lets users change default applications. Take web browsing for a moment. In iOS, you're stuck with Safari however you look at it since all browsers have to rely on Cocoa Touch's WebKit component (since using another rendering engine would contravene the App Store's rule about interpretation of code). On Android, I can use different browsers than aren't just skins for an underlying set of components. This is why I can use Chrome, Firefox or Opera (not Mini which is hardly a browser at all) and set it as a default. I could happily go about my day using Firefox or Opera and never see Google once. I could happily download a third party email client and never have Google register in my consciousness. You seem to have a very interesting view as to how far Google reaches into the everyday Android experience. Good point, but where are these knockoffs? Because surely iOS has never tried to be like Android at any point. [/QUOTE]
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