logicallefty
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iPhones are more secure because of the way the operating system runs in a read only mode on its own disk partition. So for Androids, Windows, Linux systems, etc. they have operating system files inner twined with data that is dynamic and able to be changed on the same disk partition. From least secure to most it would go Windows, Android, Linux, iPhone. On the iPhones, the operating system is locked down on a partition of its own that no app or malware or anything can make changes to; only Apple can. All of the dynamic and temporary file activity is done on a separate partition. So yeah, it could get malware on that partition. However, a reboot or even sometimes a simple, browser cache flash, and it’s completely gone. So for this reason, there isn’t a lot of malware being written for the iPhone. In order to infect an Iphone it has to either 1) be rooted phone. Once the phone is rooted then it is no longer running in read only mode. Or, 2) an iPhone can be compromised if the malware writer can trick the user into installing an app that gets through Apple security. A human being actually has to install the app with malware very intentionally. They won’t know it has malware but it also won’t be something from the App store which is secured by Apple.Are they actually more secure or simply more secure because hackers don't bother with Apple products because everything is windows and Android?
Like how Apple claims they never get computer viruses on Macs. It's not that there is anything special about their OS that prevents it, just that it's far more productive and fruitful to make them for Windows PCs because of the huge numbers advantage.
No hacker is going to waste their time targeting 3% of the PC population instead of the 97%
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