Android&#x27;s system security design is inferior to that of iOS.<p>But, iOS&#x27;s superiority (a) derives in significant part from Apple&#x27;s total control over the hardware platform†, and (b) comes at the cost of a lot of user control tradeoffs that nerds like us tend to hate.<p>Really, to suggest that Android&#x27;s security is at parity with Apple&#x27;s, you&#x27;d have to be arguing that Apple does a <i>terrible job</i> at exploiting their inherent advantages of control over hardware and control over what&#x27;s allowed to run on the platform. Apple does not do a terrible job at those things.<p>† <i>Yes, Google controls some of their hardware, but they have an ongoing support requirement for a lot of hardware they have no control over at all, and will have that requirement forever, which limits their options.</i>