I don’t think that’s valid at all. Apple has consistently led on security and privacy issues. The encryption API we discussed is a great example of that. A huge amount of engineering effort went into a feature that only a few apps use & that also seriously pissed off the FBI.
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Windows is in the very same situation, though. Core Windows is decent in security, but OEMs load it down with all sorts of terrible crap. Microsoft has trouble fixing that because they’re a convicted monopolist (which now Google is too, in the EU…)
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Put another way, I don’t think any tech company has successfully solved the “outsource consumer software to OEMs and make sure they can’t load it down with insecure crap” problem.
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Not sure. I think the oem story is worse, though I’m not sure why. Was also bad in the win98/xp days. Certifying oems helps, so Android One and CTS seems right direction?
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System Management Mode is terrifying, for example. OEMs have total control at ring -2. Introduced in 1992. Microsoft and Intel *still* haven’t been able to kill it.
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I don't think it's a fair comparison. Windows is not open source and there aren't bunch of customized Windows that are unsafe. I don't see a concrete evidence that Google's own devices being less safe than Windows.
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I think you're misunderstanding my analogy; I don't mean that they are similar, but that a decision at the highest levels in the early 2000's to make security a priority at Microsoft achieved the 'impossible', and that a similar decision by Google could get results today
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Windows is not fixed.
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