ELI5. Why can’t phones get viruses from websites that normal computers do? And why don’t computers use whatever technology the phones operating systems use?

Question

ELI5. Why can’t phones get viruses from websites that normal computers do? And why don’t computers use whatever technology the phones operating systems use?

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Answer 1

One part not being talked about much is the concept of an immutable operating system. There’s some experiments with desktop and server immutable operating systems and Ubuntu touch is a mobile version of Ubuntu with this concept.