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Comment by wcdolphin | Hacker News Reader

Google is using their security research as a marketing weapon against Apple. From the article itself, Android is arguably more vulnerable as measured by percent of users running a device whose OEM has not distributed an update.

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Android was the target of the original post, this is more of a followup demonstrating that a similar attack works on Apple hardware too.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/over-air-ex...

The irony is that all Apple devices will get the updates, whereas the Android ones....

Anything iPhone 5 or lower will not - 10.3.3 fixed one of the issues, but 2 more exist.

I do wish they would at least put out a 10.3.4 to fix the security issues, but I understand not putting the resources into a phone from 2012; I'm happy to at least have gotten 10.3.3 considering my Nexus 5 stopped getting updates last year and it was release in 2013.

> but I understand not putting the resources into a phone from 2012

I don't, but I have more sympathy for a company who quit supporting a phone from 2012 than a hypothetic [1] company who quit supporting a phone from 2015.

[1] Tho certainly a plethora examples would fit here.

It also includes the 5c, which was launched in 2013. The 8 gig version of it was sold by Apple as the budget option until September of 2015, a mere two years ago. Some retailers still carry them to this day.

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