How Come iPhones are Safer than Android Handsets?
Most of the Android users are annoyed to know that their gadgets never used to get timely security updates. Most of them can be attacked with an MMS message. Google seems to be helpless in providing security to these devices. Most unfortunate thing is that manufacturers and carriers never care for this at all. Android devices are nowadays prone to security bugs with weak security over the devices. When these devices are compared with iOS platform, Apple tends to fill up the security bugs from time to time. Even Windows platform phones are better than Android gadgets in providing security.
No Assured Security Updates for Android Handsets
Google usually makes the reinforcements and adds them to the usual Android Open Source Project Code. Then Google passes these patches to the handset manufacturers like Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Lenovo, LG, Sony and many others. Google’s duty ends here. They cannot force these producers to integrate these reinforcements to their gadgets. It is at the sole discretion of producer of these handsets whether to integrate those reinforcements or not. If they really want to add those reinforcements, then manufacturers are needed to add them to gadget’s Android code and make a new version of Android for the particular gadget.
This is actually a separate initiative for every single gadget and tab that producer supports. Each maker of the handsets is then required to contact their carriers and give them gadget specific reinforcement for each carrier across the globe. Here ends the maker’s involvement. Here also the maker of the device is not able to stress on each carrier to do so. Carriers can decide whether to send or not the new reinforcements for the handset or not.
In reality what happens is that most of the Android devices are devoid of these security reinforcements provides by maker. The makers are always busy with introducing new and new models, so they don’t actually have time for updating the OS that they have already launched in the market. Carriers are also busy with shipping as much as devices as they can, they are also devoid of enough time to test them all. They usually concentrate on pursuing the customers to buy new devices rather than providing updates and managing the flaws of the older gadgets. When user usually checks for the updates provided by manufacturer, they usually replies that your handset is up-to-date. But what happens since there is no update have been enabled by maker and carrier, these gadgets are devoid of such security updates.
What Google can do?
Android Update has been broken down terribly. There is no assurance from the Android that they hit your device with updated security reinforcements. Also the user is unaware about the security reinforcements made by Android. Google has somehow come up with a solution. They gives the assistance of Google Play Services to update the Android gadgets of yours. But when it comes to Android gadgets with version older than Android 4.4.4, the web browser is packed with security holes beyond repair. That’s why most of the devices of Android OS are vulnerable to simple MMS.
Finally How to Guarantee Security Updates on Smart Devices?
It is advisable to buy an iOS device if you want to escape from security threats. Even Microsoft Windows smartphones are better than Android devices. This is because when a security breach is observed in an iPhone, Apple immediately releases reinforcements to every iPhone users without the nuisance of carriers in between.
Controls are Better in iOS
App permissions are the place where iPhones stand apart from Android smartphones. In Android platform, when a particular application is downloaded and installed, they usually ask for access of almost all personal infos in the handset. But when the same thing is done in iPhone, users are allowed to choose those things where the particular app can have access to. In iPhone you can install an application without giving access to your contacts and other credentials. But when it comes to Android, app permissions are somewhat stiff. Here the user has only two choices, whether to accept installation or reject the installation of the particular application. Google now tried to develop certain programs to limit the app permissions of particular app in Android smartphones. But unfortunately such options are available with 3rd party custom ROMS, since Google separated the Hidden Permission Manager of Android.
iPhones gives its owner full control of what a particular app can access from the smartphone. This helps the users to keep a low profile of their credentials without leaking them to third party anymore. Presently Apple’s application store has prohibited certain types of contents. They permit apps from approved source only. These all precautions actually help to prevent security breach in iOS devices.
Most of the threats in Android devices come from outside Google Play. This happens when users try to download and install apps from third party sources even after denying repeated warnings made by Google. Finally what happens is that users suffer from losing their credential data to some third party by allowing them to access your smartphone. Actually Google is responsible to solve this malware problem by timely launching reinforcements for security breaches happening to the OS. They are the reason behind leaving large number of security breaches unattended. so Android has to suddenly turn out to provide reinforcements to provide security against such outbreaks which could diminish your smartphone to a mere piece of metal.
