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On: Sep/08/2022

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In Spain, we have seen how the eternal war between Android and iOS has been polarizing fans of one side or another for years.One of the first arguments is that Android's great advantage is that it allows to install applications outside the Google Play Store.Apple believes that this detail is a serious problem.

According to a 28 -page security report, Apple ensures that an Android device has between 15 and 47 times more malware infections than iOS, the iPhone operating system.And they don't hide in ensuring why.From Apple they believe that the fact that third -party applications can be installed on your device opens the door to download all types of malicious software.

In fact, this report takes advantage of this observation to justify Apple's controversial posture not to allow the installation of applications outside the App Store arguing that, if allowing it, users could suffer the same fate as those of Android and return to the iPhone a phone less safe.

Android is less safe

iPhone 8 Plus.

Omicrono Android recibe 47 veces más virus que iOS, según un informe de Apple

The statement is very forceful.On page 2 we found the first sentence: "In the last 4 years, it was discovered that the Android devices had 15 to 47 times more malware than the iPhone".Appointment on page 7 to Kaspersky Lab, a cybersecurity service provider that estimated that almost 6 million monthly attacks of 2020 were aimed at Android devices.

It is not the only citation.He also mentions the ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency), explaining that he detected up to 84 million annual attacks in 2020.

iPhone and Android.

In the same Apple report it explains all types of malware that affect Android devices.The adware (designed to get income through fraudulent ads), the famous ransomware (kidnap a user's files and ask for a rescue), the consumer spyware (which spies on users and sells their data to hackers) and Trojans who steal bank dataTo users.

Third -party applications

Apple points directly to the fact that Android allows the installation of external software to the Google Play Store.Something that Apple does not allow and has earned it more than one complaint of international antitrust regulators more than once.The key would be that the Android APK (that is, the system installation files) are the culprits.

Google Play Store

Apple's argument about itself is that if the iPhone allowed this type of practices, users would ultimately be responsible for determining whether the applications that have downloaded are not malicious.Something that should fall into the hands of technology, and not those of users.

And it is much easier to impersonate a better known application on the Internet than in the Google Play Store, which on paper verifies the applications that developers upload.It is enough for a user to download an infected APK to get malware.And there are hundreds of different cases, even within the Google Play Store.

Be that as it may, this is a hard attack on the Google operating system and an argument that promotes the eternal conflict point between iPhone lovers and the detractors of Apple's telephone: the security of one system or another.

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