[citation][nom]shanky887614[/nom]what about gps? they can tell what way we are facingthis is why im on cfw on android, new version released nearly every dayby the time they have an app that can do it for one version ill be a couple versions ahead and it wont workiPhone are not updated that often at all, im surprised there is so little malware for it or at least so little that is reported[/citation]
Yeah, no. Android has malware because its marketplace is completely open without the necessary security systems in place to compensate.
iPhone and Windows Phone are closed marketplaces, both of which avoid having to have a mature security infrastructure by hand picking what apps are allowed onto any phone.
Look at it this way; Windows became widely used before its security infrastructure could catch up. It was, and is, a completely open system in that anyone can develop a program for it without having to pay someone else for the privilege and without being told they couldn't create THAT app. As a result pop ups, viruses, trojans, and all sorts of other malware came up before companies could develop defenses against them and before the OS was ready for it. Malware was allowed access to the kernel and it brought the whole system crashing down.
Fast-forward to today and Windows has separated the kernel, multiple companies have effective anti-malware services (including Microsoft), browsers are isolated more from the OS, and a huge amount of other security features are in place. The security infrastructure has matured enough to compensate almost entirely for the types of threats out there.
Right now Android is like old Windows; all features, freedom, and control without proper protection against the types of threats it's vulnerable to.
iPhone and Windows Phone bypass the step of developing a sufficient security infrastructure by making their marketplaces closed. I'm not saying it's the best approach or that I want that to continue indefinitely but I will say that it works in the short term.