Agree Rubin (per Google acquisition) chose low road & that means more players, lower standards, more room for errors and sloppy decisions or defaults that have inferior consequences vs. Apple. There's no way around it. High road is more secure. Why I use Apple gear, laptop+phone.
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Replying to @BrendanEich @Pinboard and
Though, oddly, chromeos seems to make the right trade offs far better than macos. MacOS has had some dumb blunders, too, recently—organizational inertia?
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Replying to @spongeclipper @Pinboard and
Chromebooks are righteous (have not evaluated Android app runtime security). Not Android OS, so not quite on topic -- except Chromebook OEM control much tighter, more like Apple. Right?
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In the middle. Oem hardware but no oem control over software images, and tighter hardware certification reqs. Still, points to a middle path. Does android business model require oem images? If so, why?
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Replying to @spongeclipper @Pinboard and
Foistware, crapware, risk of bricked phones => OEM or Operator support burden. Lots of reasons. Google has tried to mitigate, to be sure, but extra costs are baked in the "low road" cake, I keep saying.
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What I meant was, why is chromeos able to take a different path?
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I think this is the right question. Why was Google able to make a very secure laptop, but not a very secure phone?
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Android was an acquisition and was rushed to market.
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More important: different market.
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Doesn’t “retooling the entire OS at the last minute to look like the iPhone” count as “rushed”?
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Replying to @sayrer @BrendanEich and
Being rushed == more bugs == more security problems. See https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.03356.pdf … — most of the vulns are just plain bugs.
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