As one of the world's giant smartphone vendors, Apple regularly releases a line of iPhones with all their selling points and superior features.
However, interestingly, Apple CEO Tim Cook recently publicly suggested that consumers buy Android phones , not iPhones.
The suggestion began when Cook was asked about the sideloading feature, aka the ability to install applications from outside the official app store, for example installation via APK files. The sideloading feature has been around for a long time on Android, but has never been officially available on iPhones with the iOS operating system.
Cook also advised consumers who want this feature to buy an Android device instead. He seemed to want to emphasize that sideloading will never be presented on the iPhone.
"The sideloading option is there when you go to a phone store. If sideloading capabilities are important to you, then you should buy an Android phone," Cook said at a conference at The New York Times DealBook Online Summit, this week.
Cook explained that the main reason his company did not include sideloading capabilities on the iPhone was because the feature was seen as "too risky" for user security.
"It's not called an iPhone if it doesn't maximize user security and privacy," concluded the Apple boss , as compiled by our from a DealBook interview, Friday (12/11/2021).
Sideloading is said to be a gateway for malware toenter Android Previously, in June, Tim Cook had mentioned the sideloading ability as a big weakness for Android phones. He claims that there is far more malware (malware) on Android than iOS because of that feature.
"Android has 47 times more malware than iOS. Why? Because we designed iOS so that there is only one App Store and we review all applications before going there," Cook said in an interview with media company, Brut.
By preventing sideloading , said Cook, Apple has managed to protect its ecosystem from the invasion of malware, which mostly supports applications from unofficial sources.
A WatchGuard report in 2019 did mention that Android devices are 50 times more vulnerable to malware than iOS.
However, another report from Nokia stated that the number of malware infections on Android devices decreased drastically in 2020, from 47.15 percent in the previous year to 26.64 percent.
Meanwhile, as compiled from TechSpot , malware infections on iPhones rose from 0.85 percent to 1.72 percent in the same time period.
Amazing
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