eli5: Why do computer operating systems have lots of viruses and phone operating systems don’t?
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Computers are like a chalk blackboard. Everyone was given chalk and was supposed to only write where they were supposed to. This made it very easy to mess up what others wrote.
Phones also have a blackboard but now the chalk is tied to a piece of string attached to the board. So now each chalk can only write in its own area. And you cannot write with your own chalk. Of course, there are ways to break the string but it’s not as easy.
(Yes. This is a simplified analogy but maybe it helps). The blackboard is the system, memory and disk or storage. The chalk is the different apps that write and read from memory and storage.
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