| | | > Here's the only exception and its not actual break ins its "vulnerabilities"...
Exploits and vulnerabilities are not malware, they are simply security holes found in the operating systems that could be exploited by someone with the requisite skill. I'd venture to guess most of the ones found by security researchers are never exploited before being fixed.
> I'd love to see real statistical results but I doubt that'll ever happen.
What is measurable is the amount of malware found time after time on the Google Play Store, for years now. It is not someone's "opinion."
Oh, look: More malware in the Google Play store
And this, from April: Android malware infiltrates 60 Google Play apps with 100M installs
You have to go back a number of years, to 2015, to find anything similar on Apple's iOS App Store. There were apps made with a hacked version of Apple's Xcode in China that infected apps (with XcodeGhost), most of which were downloaded in China.
This isn't to say iOS is perfectly safe, that would be impossible. In fact, Kaspersky recently found one that can infect an iPhone through iMessage.
As for banking, if you choose not to use your phone for that purpose it is up to you. Personally I'd rather be able to deposit a check with my iPhone from the comfort of my home rather than go to my bank or one of its ATMs, but that's just me.
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