My primary phone has been an Android phone for a long time. This is mostly for philosophical reasons as I highly value general purpose computing. The ability to easily execute any code on a device that I have purchased is extremely important. Of course this comes with the potential downside that the device is harder to secure. Last night I discovered for the first time that I had a piece of malware on my phone. It affected only Chrome and was adding links to page content, for instance taking ...

My primary phone has been an Android phone for a long time. This is mostly for philosophical reasons as I highly value general purpose computing. The ability to easily execute any code on a device that I have purchased is extremely important. Of course this comes with the potential downside that the device is harder to secure. Last night I discovered for the first time that I had a piece of malware on my phone. It affected only Chrome and was adding links to page content, for instance taking ...