James Delahunty
8 Oct 2013 5:32
Executive chairman and former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, has claimed that Android is more secure than the iPhone.
Gartner analyst David Willis asked a question of Eric Schmidt during the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo where he touched on Android's security reputation.
"If you polled many people in this audience they would say Google Android is not their principal platform... When you say Android, people say, wait a minute, Android is not secure," Willis commented.
Schmidt was having none of it. "Not secure? It's more secure than the iPhone," he declared, drawing laughter from the audience.
Schmidt went on to tout Android 1 billion+ device activations and the stringent security testing it undergoes.
Recently, a U.S. government report highlighted the lack of a upgrade path for many devices running Android, which can leave them vulnerable to malware attacks.