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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Most mobile operating systems were developed nearly from the ground up in a post virus world. They are heavily containerized.
Windows, Mac, and Linux for PCs all have their roots in older times when the OS was much more open, and they have a hard time breaking free of that without breaking a lot of legacy expectations that people have.
Pretty much all of them have worked on adopting some of the systems phones use, to varying degrees of success, but adoption is slow as people still want to be able to do all the same things they used to be able to do in the same ways.
Its because a large number of apps which we use on phones are downloaded from Stores (App Store/ Play Store) and installing it from a random website is difficult. On computers, most of the apps are downloaded from websites and directly run which increases the risk of getting malware.
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