Security concerns surrounding the Android platform have always taken a back seat to that of iOS, but a new study challenges that notion.

According to a report published by mobile application analyst Appthority, iOS apps pose greater risks and privacy issues to users than Android.

http://www.scmagazine.com/study-finds-ios-apps-to-be-riskier-than-android/article/284092/

never read more crap in one report as in this ... the usual press, nothing to report, so we make up somethings.

if the same apps where compared, the same riscs where discovered on any OS!

or did they test all available apps ? sure not.

so there must have been a selection, which is not published along with it, making the whole content completly worthless.

also i do not exactly understand what the operatinsystem has to do with the apps the end user does install on it ?

so the test should be about how to comissions do allow apps to be sold on the individual stores.

anyway:

every developer arround here can confirm that it is really easy to get a android app on sale capable of spying out the device and all connected services with it.

doing the same on the iOS market leads to alot of questions and refusals of adding to the stores (you need to be very tricky and provide ALOT of excuses for data access)

Yep. Another one to file under total garbage.

As Phil Schiller (Apple VP) recently tweeted, 99% of all mobile malware is on Android. Obviously. That's the whole reason the iPhone app store is both heavily regulated and curated. Obviously because if you want to be open, you will get malware, there's no way around it.

Are you shorting Apple?

just askin'

Someone with and agenda to seel android ?

I know a guy who is top of the league when it comes to iT, he labels Android " a leaky ship", and says IOs is far superior in terms of security.