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There's bound to be more instances of malware on Android, since users can install apps from anywhere. It's no different to desktops, if you only go via an app store you limit your exposure as the odd case that does sneak into the store will be pulled as soon as they realise. Installing from anywhere else and you're taking the risks onboard.
The only difference between the android and apple stores will be down to the screening process and there should be no reason both cannot be as good.
kartu has a valid point about permissions though. I wish even though apps were installed via the apple app store that you had an option to grant permissions per app. Even if the default is apps get all the permissions they request, I'd like the option to say apps get nothing by default (or these permissions by default) the rest have to be ok'd. That way when I download what I think is an offline only app, the app cannot communicate with other devices/network without me realising there's an online component to it.
Apple were probably against that as they like to keep things simple. However, if it's an option at least those who care about such permissions could make use of it. Although they have included per app permissions for location services, I'd like that taken further to include mic/camera/access to other data like contacts and photos/network access...
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