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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
But I'm honestly fundamentally opposed to the Apple ecosystem and their refusal to let users run arbitrary software of their choosing. If I were looking for an android version of an iPod Touch I'd look for a cheap phone and just not use the cellular part.
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For what it is worth, we had a mobile device ecosystem at work that was about 50/50 iOS and Android about 3 years ago. After multiple incidents over the years and a couple of fairly serious incidents in the last year, we no longer allow the corporate use of Android devices. Connect an Android device to the corporate network and you are blocked from accessing any internal resources which makes them pretty much useless.
Yes, the Apple walled garden can be a PITA. OTOH, the ability to install any piece of crap found on the Internet by an Android user is a security hole that we could not afford to allow to continue unchecked. Yes, Apple is not perfect but compared to Google's seeming inability to properly enforce security on the Play Store, Apple looks like a much better option. Something like 66% of apps removed from Google's Play Store compared to 8% from the Apple App Store are removed due to dangerous permissions. I won't even get into the third-party Android app stores which was where a good deal of our corporate issues came from.