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Apple vs Android – iPhone and iOS get bragging rights over Google smartphone rivals
Apple fans have been handed bragging rights over their Android counterparts in one major department, thanks to a newly released study.
New analysis of how quickly security updates are rolled out has put Apple head and shoulders above its Android competition.
The study was conducted by SecurityLab, who revealed in a post on Twitter their analysis of how quickly smartphone makers released security fixes.
Different mobile OS and brands were rated on a number of factors in a rankings table.
The categories rated included:
• The shortest time to release a security update following the discovery of a vulnerability
• The maximum delay in making the update available to everyone
• Whether or not updates were independent of carriers
• How long a device is supported with security updates
The study used a traffic stop scoring system for each category, with green being the highest rating and red being the lowest.
In every category, Apple’s iOS mobile operating system was given the highest possible rating.
Essential and Google were the only two Android smartphone makers to get a top ‘green’ rating in a number of categories, but not all of them.
While Samsung was further down the pecking order, and got a mixture of yellow and red ratings for their security update availability.
One area that Apple was leaps and bounds ahead of its competition was the length of time it offered customers security updates.
The SecurityLab study said Apple offered security update support for five years, with Android opposition on two years or less.
The analysis put iOS’s nearest competition as, surprisingly, Windows, which is used by Microsoft and Nokia devices.
Windows 10 Mobile was rated green in almost all areas, apart from a yellow rating for one category.
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The news comes as Apple fans have been teased about the new smartphones the Cupertino firm are rumoured to be launching in 2018.
Apple is preparing to release its biggest iPhone ever – which will be one of three new iPhones that gets launched in 2018, according to reports.
Apple last year broke the mould and unveiled three iPhones at their big September event.
These devices were the iPhone 8, the iPhone 8 Plus and the hugely anticipated iPhone X.
And it looks like Apple has found three is the magic number, with reports that a trio of new iPhones will be unveiled at Cupertino later this year.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who has a reliable track record of getting insider info, detailed the three iPhones that will allegedly get launched in 2018.
He claimed Apple will launch an upgraded iPhone X, a less expensive model with some of the flagship’s features and a giant high-end iPhone X.
This latter device, which could be the much rumoured iPhone X Plus, will allegedly have a massive 6.5inch screen.
This is a bigger screen size than any iPhone so far, with the iPhone X and iPhone 8 Plus both sporting a 5.8inch screen.
It’s even a larger display than the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, positioning the rumoured new iPhone as a rival to ‘phablet’ style phones.
Gurman said despite the huge screen size, the ‘iPhone X Plus’ will physically have the same footprint as the iPhone 8 Plus.
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All three new iPhones will reportedly have a TrueDepth camera for Face ID, meaning the notch will feature across Apple’s new iPhone line-up.
The cheapest upcoming iPhone will allegedly boast an edge-to-edge display – but the screen will be LCD as opposed to the iPhone X’s more expensive OLED.
And both the 2018 iPhone X and the iPhone X Plus are rumoured to come in a new gold colour scheme.
