It seems that Google may have just fallen foul of one of the pitfalls of having engineers running the business rather than people that are much more adept at providing a politician’s response to some difficult questions. Google’s head honcho of Android, Sundar Pichai, has been in attendance at this week’s Mobile world Congress, as well as it seems he’s provided a extremely fascinating response to a mildly fascinating question.
Speaking to French Android blog, FrAndroid, Pichai was asked about the distinctly Android problem of malware, with Android phones being the most vulnerable to those wanting to do damage to, or through someone’s smartphone.
The topic of malware has to be a relatively typical concern for Pichai, which is why we would expect him to have one or two canned reactions prepared to terminate back. It seems that for whatever reason Pichai had something else in mind this week, with the candid reaction taking some by surprise.
Rather than providing an response the likes of which a politician would be proud, Pichai just stated that Android was never developed with security first, however instead with providing an open experience. Well Mr. Pichai, it’s risk-free to state that’s what you did.
Google’s head of Android likewise went on to talk about his company’s connection with the most significant player in Android, Samsung, in addition to the new line of Nokia X handsets that have been revealed this week. sadly for him though, it appears like that’s going to be forgotten together with the admittance that Android just isn’t implied to be risk-free for everybody to use.
We cannot assurance that Android is developed to be safe, the style was developed to provide much more freedom. When people talk about 90% of malware for Android, they should of program take into account the truth that it is the most prominent operating system in the world. If I had a business devoted to malware, I would likewise be addressing my attacks on Android…
We’d like to understand what everybody in the Android team in addition to the larger Google have to state about that. We’re going to go ahead as well as suggest it’s nothing good.
While the truth that Android performs in truth account for much more gadgets than anybody else, that doesn’t get around the truth that it is certainly coming up short in the safety and security as well as security stakes. With third-party app stores being utilized around the globe, Google can’t always be held accountable of what goes on. That being said, it seems like it didn’t have security as a concern during Android’s development. That’s one thing, however stating it so bluntly at a mobile gadget show is one more entirely.
(Source: FrAndroid [Google Translate])
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