I was in a computer store a few years ago watching a young guy trying to sell a tablet to an older woman. He said "the good news about this is that it can't get viruses because it runs apps".

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago

everyone knows viruses are allergic to apps

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ill bet anything they laughed about that in the breakroom

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 24 points 2 weeks ago

I'd bet they believed it themselves.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you assume that she will only install official apps, that they are sandboxed and Apple doesn't allow viruses in App Store apps, then that statement seems fine to me.

Every networked computer has some risk of getting a viris of course.

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I mean yeah like you can be a pedant about it but all in all its a statement that makes sense. Apps on both android and ios are very sandboxed, even if you go out of your way to install malware there's very limited damage it can do, barring zerodays in the sandboxing itself.

[–] TheV2@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Tztztz...didn't he know that a full virus protection is only achieved when you run apps that run ads?