Yesterday, Jim posted about some comments made by Google’s Android head Sundar Pichai. There has been a lot of discussion about those comments and what Pichai meant to say about the safeness of Android.

Whatever his intention, the linked article, to me, reflects a less biased point of view.

Kaspersky Lab’s report on the evolution of threats targeting smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices in 2012 was published in February 2013. Our data shows that in 2012 Android became the number-one target among virus writers, and that the number of threats over the course of the year grew steadily. Has this upswing in the number of mobile threats continued in 2013 so far? Indeed it has.

Follow the link for the details, but this sentence sums things up quite well:

A total of 99.9% of new mobile threat detections target the Android platform.