Talk:Updates/@comment-37488139-20181206155355/@comment-35015268-20181207195629

Just to add one more thing to this, I use to work in network security and I once read a research paper that estimated 75% of all apps on the Google play store have some kind of adware, virus, backdoor, or some other malware. Granted this was many years ago and I'm sure the security has beef'd up on the Android platform but the problem with Android is that Google is reactive to security concerns so it doesn't know what it doesn't know until someone tells them. The other issue is that Google is not in charge of updating the majority of their Android phones, in most cases in the US, it is the carrier. The carrier almost never updates the phones of their customers because it provide them not enough financial benefit to put in that effort. Most Android phones are behind in security updates, the users just don't know because they don't know how to find out.