Remember JailbreakMe? There were two jailbreaks that worked solely from the browser. What this means is that there were enough exploits in the browser and the OS that a webpage could hack into the phone, gain root access, install applications, and modify the system. Of course in this case it was done with good intentions, but if malicious hackers discover similar exploits think of what they could do.
Android exploits are rarely in the media. What you see in the media are trojans. Mostly these come from pirated apps or dodgy Chinese app markets. The Google Play Store is quite safe, generally speaking.
It's not perfect however, and yes sometimes trojans get into the Play Store. But do you know what systems exist to prevent malware in the Play Store? The same systems Apple uses for the App Store. Both Google and Apple run apps in a simulated virtual environment and test to see if they're malicious. This isn't a perfect science and sometimes malware gets through for both platforms. As I said before, the difference is that on Android you can look at the permissions and see something is up, which you can't do on iOS.
And as far as real world examples go, aside from the Charlie Miller proof of concept, do you remember
this little story? Where a large number of popular iOS apps uploaded users' entire address books without their knowledge?
Like I said, iOS is no safer than Android, it's just that iOS does a better job at hiding security risks from users.
It's gotten better as of late and yes more and more extensions are being ported over. Personally I still use Chrome as my main browser on my Nexus 7 but I do like Firefox regardless.
I believe Android has a high contrast mode as an OS setting, I'll check this for you next time I have my Nexus in front of me.
is WHEN ! and thats the problem, how long till apple introduce a proper big screen
