> Apple is light years ahead of Google where privacy and security are concerned.
Privacy I'd agree, but security? Apple's security track record is straight up hot garbage. Their cloud security is a complete joke (iCloud has been hacked how many times now?). Google's cloud security meanwhile has a stellar record. Outside of cloud yeah Apple has lots of security buzzwords, but they still are repeatedly hacked. We are, after all, talking about a post where 5 different 0-days were actively exploited on iOS. And just about every release of iOS has had critical escalation vulnerabilities (aka, jailbreaks) - such as the CoreTrust bypass exploit in iOS 12 ( https://gist.github.com/pwn20wndstuff/a57b213a6f8c75cb3b9a8c... )
Android has an update problem, but between all the hardening that's been done there (such as extensive selinux policies) it's pretty fucking solid, and is backing that up with results.
Privacy I'd agree, but security? Apple's security track record is straight up hot garbage. Their cloud security is a complete joke (iCloud has been hacked how many times now?). Google's cloud security meanwhile has a stellar record. Outside of cloud yeah Apple has lots of security buzzwords, but they still are repeatedly hacked. We are, after all, talking about a post where 5 different 0-days were actively exploited on iOS. And just about every release of iOS has had critical escalation vulnerabilities (aka, jailbreaks) - such as the CoreTrust bypass exploit in iOS 12 ( https://gist.github.com/pwn20wndstuff/a57b213a6f8c75cb3b9a8c... )
Android has an update problem, but between all the hardening that's been done there (such as extensive selinux policies) it's pretty fucking solid, and is backing that up with results.