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Too bad Google isn't more aggressive at keeping malware out of the Play Store. As it stands, I will not install anything that isn't from something very mainstream such as Google, Amazon, Netflix, etc. No small/indy apps for me.

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Check out Google's excellent Android security review [1]. Google is pretty effective at keeping harmful apps out of the the Play Store; if you don't sideload apps less than 0.15% devices had malware.

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/source.android.com...

How does that compare with iOS? I mean, Google may be doing yeoman's work, but if that compares with near-zero (due to Apple's walled garden), it's still looks bad in comparison (esp with the huge Android installed base).

I don't have stats (and I'd be surprised if Apple released them), but it's not like IOS malware is unheard of. For example: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2989037/malware-vulnera...

> Too bad Google isn't more aggressive at keeping malware out of the Play Store.

I don't know, how often do we hear about this kind of malware on Google Play?

Not nearly as often as I would have thought a few years back, especially given that Google does zero reviews of what gets uploaded.

I think their current system is working reasonably well, but obviously, it's not perfect.

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