Oh, bull excrement. You continually make claims you cannot backup with facts. You pull these facturds out of your behind with not a whit of evidence and post them as if they were handed down on high. Apple is on top of both vulnerabilities and exploits and publishes them when found. I KNOW, because I've been posting them over the past ten or so years on FR, usually much to the glee of the Anti-Apple Hate Brigade members. But it usually after Apple has found them, patched them, and published them. In that order.
The number of actual exploits for iOS is very small, countable on the fingers of two hands, while the number of exploits for Android number in the millions. That is a fact. So your claim that there is somehow an equivalence between Android and iOS in security is specious. Even your linked article equivocates by using a so-called security expert who obfuscates the issue by trying to raise the old Security-by-obscurity canard that has been shot down repeatedly, and decisively, for the last thirty years, when he says (actually talking about OS X, not iOS):
"Apple devices have experienced a surge in popularity in recent years. This increase in usage has not gone unnoticed by attackers."
Further, the list of "smartphone hacks" in your linked article, disingenuously lists an OS X supposed malware from The Hacking Team (it wasn't, it was a variation of an already existing and recognized Trojan)! More importantly, except for the two Apple entries, one of which is for a NON-SMARTPHONE, and other is a real stretch for an iOS "hack", the rest are all actual and serious ANDROID EXPLOITS in the wild:
More about smartphone hacks
- Stagefright bug now hits audio files on Android devices
- Stagefright: Android bug gives hackers control of your smartphone by sending a message
- ATMZombie: Malware laid the trap letting criminals steal cash from Israeli ATMs (Android)
- OS X malware: HackingTeam may have released a malicious code putting Apple's Mac devices at risk (Turned out to be a TROJAN that OS X already recognized, blocked, and warned the user about!)
- Apple iOS not as secure as you think – App Store tricked into allowing users to install pirate apps (Chinese THIRD PARTY app stores, not US Apple App stores. ONE malicious app got through Apple's vetting by using a stolen Apple certificate, but was removed within two days!)
- Google Android: GMBot source code leaked to the dark web - now anyone can become a malware kingpin
- Google Android: Xbot malware contains cocktail of data theft and ransomware
- Google Android: Smartphones hit with Mazar Bot malware that can 'erase everything'
So your evidence does not at all support your claim.
Further, Dan, 94% of the users of Apple's iOS are all running the latest iOS 9, and Apple can easily send out security patches to all of those iOS devices to correct any discovered vulnerabilities before they become exploitable malware in the wild and does exactly that.
On the other hand, on Android, Google decided long ago to allow the users or various manufacturers or carriers to be responsible for updating the versions and security of the operating systems out in the wild. . . which has resulted in a cacophony of Android operating system versions still running in the wild, some of which cannot even be updated and many which will not be updated and many others that for which the security updates are just plain not available. . . leaving many hundreds of millions of Android devices vulnerable to severe malware afflictions and hacker attacks that ARE in the wild, some of which can infect a device merely by innocently looking at a photograph with an older, un-patched device. That is simply NOT the case with any up-to-date Apple device.