[Swordmaker]

Happy ninth birthday, iPhone! Nine years without significant malware! — PING!

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[Enchante]

where does Android stand on the malware front?

I still use a Motorola Moto X from a few years ago.... haven’t been aware of any issues but I don’t know what I don’t know... heh

thanks to anyone for any info

[wardaddy]

Rubbish swordy

My i6+ has all kinds of overrides and popups

Maybe it ain’t malware but it’s a pain

The worst is the trigger to flip to app marketing for games from random browser pages

iPhones are worse than droids for unwanted ads

I’m used to mine now but I was fine with my last droid and the glass......don’t get me started....smart phones for snowflakes that break

I think they can break if you yell at them

Not to mention Apple is liberal turd tech central

That I own nine Apple devices is a testament to my whorish unprincipled nature and a predilection to spoil my loin issue

The new Sammy looks good from here

Aren’t you in Cupertino?

Make em do right

[SamAdams76]

Thanks for posting and hard to believe it’s been only nine years. It’s hard to remember a time when I didn’t have the Internet, the world, in my pocket.

I just upgraded to an iPhone 6S plus last week and I am very impressed with the larger screen real estate, the battery performance, the new camera features and the 3D Touch capability.

I remember seeing my first iPhone at a July 4th barbecue in 2007. A neighbor of a friend of mine was showing it off and he was the most popular guy there. A group of guys, including myself, formed a semi-circle around him the whole afternoon as our wives sat in their lawn chairs shaking their heads at us. The whole ride home my wife said No, No, No.

Never could understand why women do not get excited about gadgets and technology. Eventually I got my company to move me from a Blackberry to an iPhone and I never looked back. I did try out a Samsung Android device on a personal plan a few years back but still preferred the clean, crisp businesslike interface of iOS, though I do appreciate certain aspects of the Android platform. The Microsoft mobile platform was forced on me at one point at work and I thought it was awful. I led the charge to get our IT department back into the iOS camp and even they had to agree that the iOS platform ended up being much more secure and stable than what Microsoft had to offer. The boys in Redmond really missed the boat on mobile devices.

I have not had the experiences that wardaddy claims in his post and I wonder if he’s just being a curmudgeon. All my Apple devices including iPods, iPads and MacBook Pros have performed flawlessly and have been so completely free of malware that I forget it is still a problem for many other non Apple using folks. All of them still have the original batteries and I’ve never had screen damage. And I’m a bit clumsy, so I do drop my devices from time to time. I do wrap my iPhones in shock resistant cases and usually apply a screen protector. However, with my new iPhone 6S I wonder if I need screen protection at all as it is said to have even stronger glass than Gorilla glass.