From what I gather owning an Apple product makes you superior to those owning inferior products.
At least that is how it works around here. The libtards around here own Apple Gadgets the rest of us use anything but and save tons of money and get the job done.
“How is an Apple better?”
It has a higher initial cost and you have to pay for services that are free elsewhere. Plus you get a product that has no security because everyone knows that Apple products never get hacked. Who wouldn’t want that?
Seriously, I hope this is a wake-up call for Apple to get serious about security.
You will not regret that move. IMO, and that of several family and friends, the Galaxy phones are far superior to the iphones.
What's so impressive about it compared to your old cellphone?
Well, let's see.
Upgradability: iOS devices OS can be upgraded wirelessly for a number of OS cycles for years. Normally Android devices' OS can only be upgraded IF your carrier and device maker both permit it. Your Samsung Galaxy 4 may have Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, or 4.4 (KitKat), but 90% of Android phones cannot be upgraded.
Fragmentation: Only 21.9% of Android users are on devices with KitKat, 54.2% are on Jelly Bean, 10.6% are on the older 4.03/4 Ice Cream Sandwich, 13.6% on even older 2.3.3-2.3.7 Gingerbread, and 0.7% on 2.2 Froyo. Many of those cannot be upgraded at all. On the other hand, Apple IOS 7 is now on over 90% of all Apple mobile devices, with fewer than 8% on iOS 6, and less than 1% on iOS 5. App designers have very little problems making and testing software for Apple devices, but Android designers have to design and test for literally thousands of variations.
Apps: in terms of sheer numbers! the apps available for each platform are close, but there are qualitative differences.
In Apple iOS, once you buy an App, it is yours for life, installable on all your devices. The App Store is curated. . . which means the apps are tested for malware and other bad stuff. Don't believe the myth that the app stores and apps are equal, they aren't. iOS reviews in comparison to Android consistently find the iOS apps are, in general, more polished than Android apps. Most apps are released first on iOS and only later, if at all, for Android.
Privacy: Android is Google. Google's primary product is YOU! Google makes no secret they mine any data that passes through their servers for any information about you to sell to their advertisers. Your email on their servers is not secure from their crawlers. Your browsing on chrome or other browsers on your Android device is not immune from their prying eyes, any ads that are displayed you see are duly recorded, searches are noted and catalogued, activity of any kind is charted automatically. Where your device goes is tracked for commercial Google purposes. Google has already signed agreements with the government. Nothing is secret.
Apple sells no information to third parties, and has refused blanket cooperation with the government, unless under court order. Any data collected in Apple maps is generic and non-ID connected. No advertising will appear in any Apple apps, other than those where you expect it, such iTunes, the Apple Store, or the App Store. However other Apple supplied apps are ad free. Apple Mail, and other data, is encrypted and Apple itself cannot decrypt it without your password. . . which is only kept as an algorithmic hash.
Malware: How about Android phones have more and better Malware. 97% of all mobile malware targets Android devices. You might think that the 3% left over must be targeting iOS devices! but that is not the case. That 3% targets Symbian, Windows Mobile devices, and RIM devices. The total number of unjailbroken iPhone and iPad malware is ZERO. There is some for Jailbroken iPhones, but it represents less than 0.01%. Google is attempting to "curate" the Play Store, but at last check, there were still about 1% of the apps found with active Malware found. Other Android stores were found with malware percentages ranging from 3-24% with an average of 8%. Your safest approach to avoiding Malware is to stick to Google's Play store .and never getting anything from a third party store.
Here's an excerpt about one of the more egregious malware now appearing in the wild for Android.
Android vulnerability allows malware to compromise most devices and appsAttackers can impersonate trusted developers to gain powerful privileges on the OS, researchers from Bluebox Security said.
By Lucian Constantin, IDG News Service | Security
July 29, 2014, 10:32 AM — The majority of Android devices currently in use contain a vulnerability that allows malware to completely hijack installed apps and their data or even the entire device.
The core problem is that Android fails to validate public key infrastructure certificate chains for app digital signatures, said Jeff Forristal, chief technology officer of Bluebox Security, a San Francisco company whose researchers discovered the issue.
According to Google's documentation, Android applications must be signed in order to be installed on the OS, but the digital certificate used to sign them does not need to be issued by a digital certificate authority. "It is perfectly allowable, and typical, for Android applications to use self-signed certificates," the documentation says.