&gt; I&#x27;m curious why you mention Google though, their security record on Android is a lot worse than either Windows phone or IOS. In many ways I feel like they are exactly Windows in 2003 with regard to &quot;its secure if you use our APIs&quot; kind of security.<p>Chrome (OS)&#x27;s security model is a lot better, and compared to Android it was designed more in-house. Android was an acquisition and has more legacy design baggage (though of course the vast majority of the code has been written by Google at this point).