Apple has had a huge number of security issues over the years; some taking years to fix much like Microsoft. The ones that are fixed the fastest are the ones that causes the most damage to their reputation in the press not necessarily the ones that are most severe. This extends not just to the iphone but icloud (remember all those leaked nudes of rich and famous). As for apps being restricted to apple store making it more secure - think about what you are saying for a while and you might realize the folly of your statement after all no one forces you to side load an app.
I will grant that apple makes decent but restricted hardware and has excellent support but given that once you get started down the apple ecosystem you are either locked into the ecosystem or have an expensive decision to make and this is not an accident.
My singular largest complaint with android is that the system is not fully realized because the only manufacturer large enough to take full advantage of it is Samsung and their design scope and objective is somewhat narrow or where they push the envelope (i.e, flip phone); is in a direction that does not interest myself.
Beyond Samsung no one has achieved the benefit of scale (other than apple of course). Google has the resources but they don't make (or sell) phones to scale; and it does not appear to be their objective.
For me I've gone with android for a few reasons:
first I want an sd slot (something that is becoming more difficult); not for music or games but for photos. I do not want to send my photos to the cloud. For those who are happy to upload their photo library to the cloud this is less of an issue.
second I do not want to lock myself into the apple ecosystem. One could argue that I'm locking myself into the andriod/google ecosystem but in all honesty as someone who has used both it is less heavy handed.
third security. I can not say which is more secure today but historically apple security issues has been extremely embarrassing and the timeline to fix frequently depends on level of public exposure. Andriod (and andriod apps) have had their own security issue and google has allowed its fair share of trojan horses onto google play so I will say that it is not without its own flaws but historically some of apple holes (and this extend to icloud) would make a child blush. I'm not a large app user (that is to say my selection of apps is fairly narrow and mainstream; which helps a bit).
fourth and last I do not want to be at the mercy of apples whims. They decide the direction they wish to take their ecosystem and phones. If they go a direction you dislike there is no alternative while staying in their ecosystem. With andriod there are at least alternative options (though in practice somewhat limited). If you do not like the direction of samsung or google hardware you can at least look at oneplus or motor. Having said that I will fully admit (as noted above) that very few hardware manufacturers have the benefit of scale to produce top tier hardware. Then again apple margins are obscene and that is mostly due to not allowing competition in their ecosystem (i.e, not only are they selling those phones for a pretty penny but their margins on each phones are much higher than the competition).
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As a caveat the philosophy one should take is anything unencrypted stored in the cloud is public information. What most of my friends do is install an encryption layer between their devices and 'cloud' storage so all items are stored encrypted and quite frankly all cloud providers should make this their default and required mode of operation if security was their #1 priority.
I will grant that apple makes decent but restricted hardware and has excellent support but given that once you get started down the apple ecosystem you are either locked into the ecosystem or have an expensive decision to make and this is not an accident.
My singular largest complaint with android is that the system is not fully realized because the only manufacturer large enough to take full advantage of it is Samsung and their design scope and objective is somewhat narrow or where they push the envelope (i.e, flip phone); is in a direction that does not interest myself.
Beyond Samsung no one has achieved the benefit of scale (other than apple of course). Google has the resources but they don't make (or sell) phones to scale; and it does not appear to be their objective.
For me I've gone with android for a few reasons:
first I want an sd slot (something that is becoming more difficult); not for music or games but for photos. I do not want to send my photos to the cloud. For those who are happy to upload their photo library to the cloud this is less of an issue.
second I do not want to lock myself into the apple ecosystem. One could argue that I'm locking myself into the andriod/google ecosystem but in all honesty as someone who has used both it is less heavy handed.
third security. I can not say which is more secure today but historically apple security issues has been extremely embarrassing and the timeline to fix frequently depends on level of public exposure. Andriod (and andriod apps) have had their own security issue and google has allowed its fair share of trojan horses onto google play so I will say that it is not without its own flaws but historically some of apple holes (and this extend to icloud) would make a child blush. I'm not a large app user (that is to say my selection of apps is fairly narrow and mainstream; which helps a bit).
fourth and last I do not want to be at the mercy of apples whims. They decide the direction they wish to take their ecosystem and phones. If they go a direction you dislike there is no alternative while staying in their ecosystem. With andriod there are at least alternative options (though in practice somewhat limited). If you do not like the direction of samsung or google hardware you can at least look at oneplus or motor. Having said that I will fully admit (as noted above) that very few hardware manufacturers have the benefit of scale to produce top tier hardware. Then again apple margins are obscene and that is mostly due to not allowing competition in their ecosystem (i.e, not only are they selling those phones for a pretty penny but their margins on each phones are much higher than the competition).
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As a caveat the philosophy one should take is anything unencrypted stored in the cloud is public information. What most of my friends do is install an encryption layer between their devices and 'cloud' storage so all items are stored encrypted and quite frankly all cloud providers should make this their default and required mode of operation if security was their #1 priority.
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