Android as an abstract project, yes. Android, as what's actually used by users, it's not that superb.
Google is slowly trying to fix it, but average Android device is way behind average iOS device in the wild, and that will be the case for many years to come.
> Android, as what's actually used by users, it's not that superb.
It is, though. The Android that's most commonly used by users is the one from Samsung, who also issues monthly security patches for a large range of devices: https://security.samsungmobile.com/workScope.smsb
> average Android device is way behind average iOS device in the wild, and that will be the case for many years to come.
[citation needed]
Average iOS device just got hit by 2 zero-days in the wild. And jailbreaking is a long and well established practice on iOS, which is literally privilege escalation exploits. There's a constant, continuous stream of those on iOS. There doesn't seem to be many (any?) on Android for a while now.
>There doesn't seem to be many (any?) on Android for a while now.
To be fair, there are a variety of reasons why this isn't the case that have nothing to do with security. An Android jailbreak is less valuable for a few reasons, among them that you can often purchase android devices with root privs, the same isn't possible for iphone.
It's one thing to release a security patch. It's a different thing to get it installed on user devices. If a user never has an opportunity to install the patch, that patch might as well not exist from that user's standpoint.
There are millions of unpatched Android devices, probably forming a massive botnet by now. When you read it in the news sometime in the future, remember this post. You read it here first.
