Virus, virus… neverending story

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A Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, warns about more virus attacks in smartphones. Why not tell the truth that it’s of course an Android problem and not a smartphone problem? How can it be so hard to admit that Apple makes better products and that part of the quality is better protection against viruses?

But, okay, even Apple’s apps can have faults. The creator of Path felt pretty dumb a couple of weeks ago when there were a lot of fuzz about them downloading their users contacts… And of course, the article writer in Dagens Nyheter mentions that so that we shall not believe that iPhone is so amazing good.

It must be hard to be a journalist that feels the duty to remain neutral and therefor has to find something bad to write about iPhone. That thing with Path and the contact information got the public attention quite fast and as I understand it, they fixed the problem.

According to the article in Dagens Nyheter and the company F-secure, 1639 new viruses for Android smartphones was found in december 2011. Congratulations Android-owners! Congratulations to the freedom and openness in Android’s system. Really, really good that you don’t have stupid controls. I can really understand how that is a valuable argument when you buy your smartphone.

Check this diagram that I found at Asymco’s blog. It shows how sales for smartphones has developed.
Okay, I am of course protecting the right to buy any smartphone you want to buy, but I can’t understand how Android can continue to protect their ”open attitude” towards apps and by doing that open up to welcome virus attacks?