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Originally Posted by Neilk
So the Apple fanboy in me wants to say, "Wouldn't it be easier to get an iPhone that doesn't have all these security risks?"
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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
My thought exactly. The Apple world is kept pretty tightly controlled which has its plusses and minuses but one of the big plusses is that if someone can break through Apple's security and start messing around with their stuff on devices that are playing by Apple's rules (i.e. not jailbroken) it's more Apple's problem than mine!
Apple has more money than God - they can and do hire the best in the world so I'm pretty confident nobody's going to break their system anytime soon. The fact that it usually takes a long time for simple exploits / jailbreaks to come out after each new revision is a testimony to how robust their platform is. Jailbreak 9.0.2 was an anomaly and likely involved a known vulnerability that Pangu had been aware of for a while and was just sitting on to see if it got patched or not. When it didn't, they released their JB. Now of course it's fixed and nobody has (to my knowledge) been able to break 9.1.x
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It goes deeper than that.
I work in that world and the biggest gripe we get from our developers is the lag that Apples app vetting creates.
We can stick an app on the Android stores and have it live within hours.
Not so with Apples app store.
What that also means is the bad guys can stick their trojans and malware on the Android stores confident in the fact that they will get massive installs before anyone finds out their app is not all it's said to be.
You want to root / jailbreak your device and install apps from unsigned and unverified developers go right ahead, you get what you deserve.