Comments on: Survey Says: Android Owners Ignorant about Smartphone Security – I Say That Sounds Way Off https://isource.com/2011/08/03/survey-says-android-owners-ignorant-about-smartphone-security-i-say-that-sounds-way-off/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:13:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 By: Retrevo: Android Users Are More Ignorant About Smartphone Security Than iOS, Blackberry Users « android-alert https://isource.com/2011/08/03/survey-says-android-owners-ignorant-about-smartphone-security-i-say-that-sounds-way-off/#comment-38134 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:13:09 +0000 http://isource.com/2011/08/03/survey-says-android-owners-ignorant-about-smartphone-security-i-say-that-sounds-way-off/#comment-38134 […] compared to iPhone’s at 61% and… An interesting survey spotted by our sister site iSource.com has made its way to our monitors. Retrevo polled over 1,000 smartphone users regarding physical and […]

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]]> By: awg_ilyas https://isource.com/2011/08/03/survey-says-android-owners-ignorant-about-smartphone-security-i-say-that-sounds-way-off/#comment-38116 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:21:38 +0000 http://isource.com/2011/08/03/survey-says-android-owners-ignorant-about-smartphone-security-i-say-that-sounds-way-off/#comment-38116 As an Android user myself I concur.

Not too sure about the sample taken for the survey though.

]]> By: Jeff LaMarche https://isource.com/2011/08/03/survey-says-android-owners-ignorant-about-smartphone-security-i-say-that-sounds-way-off/#comment-38115 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:04:38 +0000 http://isource.com/2011/08/03/survey-says-android-owners-ignorant-about-smartphone-security-i-say-that-sounds-way-off/#comment-38115 I think you might be confusing “most Android users” with “Android advocates”. The people who feel strongly about Android, evangelize the platform, write Android applications, and get into flame wars with us iPhone fans are absolutely likely to be more aware of the risks, but if you walk into an AT&T or Verizon store, the walls are lined with Android phones, and the sales people push the Android phones hard. A lot of ordinary people have Android phones and ordinary people outnumber the people who write blogs about Android or advocate or develop for the platform – by an order of magnitude.

The fact is, regardless of platform, most users think of their phone as, well… a phone, and don’t think about security. On an open platform where it’s easier to write and distribute malicious code, that can be a problem, so I’m not sure the conclusion of the survey is as off-base as you think.

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