Google says that Android is more secure than Apple's iOS - Terra Brazil

08 October 2013 • • updated at 12.05

Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt has not explained statement, but stressed that no rigorous testing Photo: AFP

The chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, said on Monday that the mobile operating system from Mountain View, Android is more secure than rival iOS, Apple iPhones present in 5S and 5C , plus iPads and iPods Touch. According to ZDNet, the president was responding to a question from a Gartner analyst at Gartner Symposium / ITxpo in Orlando, United States.

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David Willis, head of research Mobility and Communications and a member of the Senior Council of Gartner Research, the executive pointed out that “if questioned many people in the audience would say that Google’s Android is not their primary platform, “and rejoice that” Android is not safe. ” Schmidt shot: “it is not safe?’s Safer than the iPhone.”

As president of the search giant, Android is in more than one billion devices and will continue to exist for a long time, so go through rigorous safety tests. So Schmidt himself mentioned another complaint you hear often that Android would be fragmented, which also challenged.

“For Android, we have an agreement with sellers who keep stores Android compatible and this is a big advantage for Android,” he said. He compared Google’s system – advertised as open, but there’s a part of the proprietary code and secret – with Unix, open source platform, in the days when he worked with it in the 1980s. “The main difference is that we had a store of apps to keep people united Unix” he said.