"""So you can feel safe, but only because your platform is not popular enough right now, or useful enough for anybody to bother"""
That's a stupid fallacy. In the 90's the Mac had a tiny marker share, nothing like the near 10% it has today, and it still had tons of viruses. And even platforms like the Amiga and Atari had viruses, while having insignificantly less market share than PCs at the time. The OSX Macs, on the other hand, has only seen a few trojan horses and no actual virus distributed outside of some lab or something.
So, it's not just numbers or units, or relative percentage of market share. Other things count, stuff like the UNIX like permissions OS X had from the start, compared to the silly Windows 3->XP user being automatically admin.
"""Statistically? I just gave you as an example a freaking website that can do whatever the author wants on your iPhone and you're giving me statistics?"""
I'd care about that website when ACTUAL iPhones in the wild ACTUALLY VISIT websites such as this and are hacked, in large numbers.
Until then, I could care less.
It's the difference between being scared of violence in a seedy neighborhood and being scared of being targeted by a serial killer. Yeah, they do exist. What are you chances?
That's a stupid fallacy. In the 90's the Mac had a tiny marker share, nothing like the near 10% it has today, and it still had tons of viruses. And even platforms like the Amiga and Atari had viruses, while having insignificantly less market share than PCs at the time. The OSX Macs, on the other hand, has only seen a few trojan horses and no actual virus distributed outside of some lab or something.
So, it's not just numbers or units, or relative percentage of market share. Other things count, stuff like the UNIX like permissions OS X had from the start, compared to the silly Windows 3->XP user being automatically admin.
"""Statistically? I just gave you as an example a freaking website that can do whatever the author wants on your iPhone and you're giving me statistics?"""
I'd care about that website when ACTUAL iPhones in the wild ACTUALLY VISIT websites such as this and are hacked, in large numbers.
Until then, I could care less.
It's the difference between being scared of violence in a seedy neighborhood and being scared of being targeted by a serial killer. Yeah, they do exist. What are you chances?