Google’s
Chairman and former CEO, Eric Schmidt revealed at a Gartner Symposium which
coincided with the announcement of his new book that Android Operating System
is more secure than iOS which power iPhones.
He talked
about various issues concerning Google’s innovation and software programs. The
highlight though was when he talked about Apple’s iPhone and which of the two
major OSes was more secure.
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| Eric Schmidt. Img: Google |
“Not secure?
It’s more secure than the iPhone.” Schmidt replied when he was asked about the
security of the Android platform relative to Apple’s iOS platform by Gartner
analyst, David Willis.
He went on
later to explain why Google’s Android is safer than Apple’s iOS although he
failed to hit the nail exactly on the head with his explanations. He explained
that Android’s more than one billion activations means the company has done a
stringent security testing on the OS.
“One of the
complaints that the other phone vendors has made is a fragmentation argument,
and that’s an easy one for them to make, but it’s in fact not true … We have an
agreement with all of the key vendors, especially Samsung, to keep the app
stores the same, so they’re all compatible.” he said.
Since this
reply doesn’t answer the question, he was quizzed again about the issue. He
replied: “The architecture I’m describing, you don’t need to lock down that
phone the way you had to lock down the PC … remember the whole model that we
used to talk about a lot 10 years ago was that the cost of the PC, Windows
products or anything else … it was huge problem. You don’t have this problem
anymore in the mobile world.”
Clearly
Schmidt didn’t nail the question but he explained how Android is an open
platform while Apple’s iOS is a closed model.
He later gave
a review of his next book about offering a new type of management that is
different from the traditional management. He went on to explain that the
constraints on successful companies are always themselves as it depends on
their ability to imagine the future, deploy it, get the people.
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Well, i expect a response from Apple soon and many others giving debates and insight to both there security. IOS will be my choice but Android is an open platform and yet it is still striving compared to the IOS, but then i could be wrong
ReplyDeleteI don't think Apple will reply to this but I think Apple is more secure as a platform. But that may be because it's only used by a single phone maker.
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