As a long-time user of Gmail and several other Google services, I've come to appreciate the company's Spartan UIs, ever-evolving capabilities, and pervasive integration. This is online services done right—and while I'll reserve an examination of Google's business-oriented Google Apps service for a future Office 365 comparison piece, suffice it to say that the online giant is doing something right besides selling ads attached to search results.
Stray a bit farther from the Google services nest, however, and things get a bit messier.
And in the case of Android, Google's mobile OS, things aren't just messy. They're disastrous. (Emphasis mine)
Not from a business perspective, of course. According to Google, it's now activating over 550,000 Android OS-based devices every single day. That's more than double the rate at which Apple activates iOS devices (such as the iPhone and iPad) and good for almost 200 million units per year. Two hundred million.
Thus, Android devices are like locusts, or cancer, or whatever unstoppable plague you care to mention. Unless of course you're Google. I've written at length in the past about my personal objections to Android ...
... Remember when Windows used to be the number-one target for malware writers? That day is long over. On the PC, hackers have moved on to lower-hanging fruit, which mostly consists of popular applications such as Adobe Reader and Flash. But hackers are also investigating mobile devices. And no mobile platform is more popular or less secure than Android.
According to smartphone security firm Lookout, Android malware is skyrocketing, and attackers are taking control of phones and users' personal data, including financial data. Malware is easy to deploy via Android for a number of reasons...
Whole article here.
