It would be significant if the statement was &quot;There are 100x more infected Android phones than iOS phones.&quot;<p>Remember that Android is a lot of things - there are Nexus phones, there are OHA OEM phones (majority of them), there are Chinese no name phones that use open source Android etc. So if most Chinese people use AOSP build provided by their phone maker and they all sideload apps and get infected - that&#x27;s different. Even considering all this nobody is making the above statement.<p>Just having malware written for an OS means nothing. It only suggest that it is targeted more due to market share. If people jailbreak their iPhones and install random apps from untrusted sources there is hardly anything Apple&#x27;s security can do to prevent it. Same goes for Android. Nothing in that reflects the security of the underlying platform.