[Swordmaker]

The hits for Android keep coming from the tech community. Here’s another one from Ars Technica relating to Androids broken update model in which NOBODY is really responsible to get critical security updates pushed out to users who are vulnerable to zero day exploits. . . especially for those users of older versions of Android.

[IncPen]

Did they learn nothing from the failures of MicroSoft?

[dayglored]

Android exemplifies everything wrong with the loosey-goosey, everybody roll your own, approach to high-volume software. The same thing happens when Linux distros get widespread and nobody is in charge.

That model just doesn't work under heavy pressure, and that's what the virus writers and other criminals are putting on Android -- pressure.

Google knows what they SHOULD do, but they can't, because every manufacturer customized Android, and no one patch works across the ecosystem.

My feeling is they asked for it, they worked for it, they got it, and they can have it.