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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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

They can but the difference is that on a phone apple or Google more or less have full control over what software can and can’t be installed. Unlike on a computer where you could click on an email attachment or download unsavoury stuff from a torrent site and then install it, your phone won’t let you do that so easily. So it takes a particular kind of virus to infect phones and they are just a bit harder to make. But they do exist.