Yeah, but as the poor sap who has been deemed “computer guy” for every elderly parent, aunt and uncle in the family, I think the Play and App Stores do a decent job of keeping malware in check.
It’s not perfect, but about once every year or two I have to put out a malware fire with a Windows laptop in the family. Dealing with the phones is less of a headache. Especially the iOS devices.
I wish iOS made it easier for people like me to remove those guardrails for my own needs, but for my 80 year old parents, I’m all for keeping them living in Apple and Google’s stores.
The alternative is the malware minefield that is the google play store so at the end of the day, I’ll take the lesser poison tbh. I need my phone to be more reliable than I need my PC to be, which is why I tinker and dabble on the PC and not on the phone.
They’re rare but they’re very effective, because people have their guard down there.
Yeah, but as the poor sap who has been deemed “computer guy” for every elderly parent, aunt and uncle in the family, I think the Play and App Stores do a decent job of keeping malware in check.
It’s not perfect, but about once every year or two I have to put out a malware fire with a Windows laptop in the family. Dealing with the phones is less of a headache. Especially the iOS devices.
I wish iOS made it easier for people like me to remove those guardrails for my own needs, but for my 80 year old parents, I’m all for keeping them living in Apple and Google’s stores.
The alternative is the malware minefield that is the google play store so at the end of the day, I’ll take the lesser poison tbh. I need my phone to be more reliable than I need my PC to be, which is why I tinker and dabble on the PC and not on the phone.