Say what you want about Apple and the iPhone but there’s one remarkable fact about it that Graham Cluley points out: the iPhone has had no significant malware outbreaks. Sure there have been some minor incidents but almost all the problems involved jailbroken phones.
You can dismiss all this as the fever dreams of fanboys but serious security researchers agree that the iPhone and ecosystem is far safer than Android. Yes, yes, it’s a walled garden and all but most users simply want a functional safe phone that they don’t have to think about and the iOS closed app store helps ensure this.