Why Android security fearmongering is total BS
(Android Central)

Everyone knows Android security sucks, right? Not so fast — we`ve come a long way in the past decade. There`s been plenty of FUD — fear, uncertainty and doubt — spread surrounding Android phone security over the years. And I`ll be honest: in the early days, much of it was well deserved. The fragmented nature of Android, the sheer amount of stuff that required a full firmware upgrade in order to change, and the reticence of phone makers to roll out those updates meant that Android phones were more susceptible to security issues than the iPhone. Ten years ago if a major iPhone security vulnerability was discovered, Apple could quickly patch its entire ecosystem. On Android you could be left waiting months, if a fix ever made it to your device. For an Android security issue to be addressed in 2011, new code first had to be pushed out by Google, then integrated into your phone`s firmware by the manufacturer and eventually signed off by your carrier. That`s not an ideal sequence o...