[Kirkwood]

There are much better phones out there. Apple has never taken security protocols seriously, so why buy their products?

[Pikachu_Dad]

No, there are not any better phones out there. Apple is the top.

[Citizen Zed]

"Apple has never taken security protocols seriously, so why buy their products?"

Apple will receive sympathy from the media as the victim here. And the stupid stars that took the selfies will not blame Apple - even if Apple is found to be renting its cloud storage from the NSA data warehouse.

[PreciousLiberty]

"There are much better phones out there."

Not according to customer satisfaction surveys...

"Apple has never taken security protocols seriously, so why buy their products?"

That is absolutely false. In fact, Apple is going the route of making privacy and security a selling point of their products, the opposite of Google who leverages your private data for sales purposes.

If the breach was in fact due to an Apple software flaw, it would be an isolated incident. Every company has them.

On the other hand, with Google you get ubiquitous app security problems.