&gt;  in a lot of practical ways better than that of Android.<p>Umm no - the update situation is better on iOS but fundamentally iOS has bigger problems - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twit.tv&#x2F;shows&#x2F;security-now&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;532?autostart=false" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twit.tv&#x2F;shows&#x2F;security-now&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;532?autostart=fa...</a> . That problem is unfixable easily due to the way ObjC works. Android gets code access control for free with Java. There have always been Jailbreaks for most iOS versions and it&#x27;s not like they haven&#x27;t had other security issues. The ability to fix them quickly is certainly an advantage but there is nothing in iOS that is fundamentally more secure than anything else on the market.<p>Frankly I think Apple&#x27;s security is a combination of happenstance and restrictive policies - I don&#x27;t think they care (yet) about the processes, infrastructure and people required to do what Google and Microsoft do. (No offense to the good security people at Apple - this isn&#x27;t about them, this is about having organization wide security focus like MS needed to turn around Windows.)