eli5: Why do computer operating systems have lots of viruses and phone operating systems don’t?
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Smartphones OSs are relatively new, and we have learned *a lot* about security and OS design in general.
Desktop OSs are stuck with design decisions made literally decades ago, when only 100 people even had computers and security wasn’t something people worried about.
They also can’t change those things, as that would break so many applications.
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