Ok about this argument, but this have nothing to do with Android but the phone brand. If Samsung don't want to push update it's their fault and not the fault of Android to provide a open system. It's still why I don't have found any argument that "IPhone are the solution".
Maybe that iOS devices actualy do in reality get updates far beyond any actual Android devices? Yes in theory Android devices could get security updates as long as iOS devices. But arguably the fact that in reality none of them do is somewhat relevant to actual people's actual choices about their actual security.
Yup, that's about the only way in which iOS has an advantage though. There's no good privacy protection software on iOS, no way to block known bad hosts, etc. Go get an Android device with XPrivacy and AdAway, it's seriously the only tolerable way to use a phone these days. While the ability to add these things isn't default, it also isn't actively persecuted like on iOS.
The amount of information every app you install wants to harvest is ridiculous, on iOS they can do this unchecked, even if you'd rather they not, on Android if you're willing to do a bit of work, you can have near complete control.
Maybe not quite as much control as that feeling of hitting Ctrl+D for the first time after installing SoftICE, but... pretty damn good. :)
But that's exactly what content blockers in iOS are for, they also have the benefit of not being able to send information about what's being blocked back to their apps and servers.
I myself have been using Adblock Fast for quite some time now.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but those content blockers only apply to safari, not apps, right? Blocking ads while browsing isn't really the issue I'm talking about - web ads are already fairly restricted in what they can do, especially if you have a decent browser with extensions.
With adaway on Android I'm able to block inapp ads, statistics and demographics reporting services, crash reporting services and other privacy invading services.
