Apple’s Phil Schiller ‘warns’ against Android

NEW DELHI: Apple's marketing head Phil Schiller has taken a potshot at at Google'sAndroid platform, the company's biggest competitor in the mobile operating system segment. He tweeted a link to the F-Secure Labs report that says Google's OS is accountable for 79 percent of all malware on smartphones and the threat is growing. Schiller also sounded a warning to smartphone users with by saying 'be safe out there' on Twitter.


Google's Android has been gaining market share over Apple's iOS across the world. However, the latter is widely panned for its security lapses and malware-laden apps. 

Finland-based F-Secure's report said that the free Google operating system, which has been gaining smartphone market share globally, has become the dominant platform targeted by hackers. 

"Every quarter, malware authors bring forth new threat families and variants to lure more victims and to update on the existing ones. In the fourth quarter alone, 96 new families and variants of Android threats were discovered, which almost doubles the number recorded in the previous quarter," F-Secure quarterly report said. 

The only other platform with any significant share of malware was Symbian, the system dropped by Nokia, which F-Secure said accounted for 19 per cent.