"So you can't blame Apple for users loading side applications and software but you can blame Android."
Exactly. To get a jailbroken iPhone, the user has to disable certain security protocols; these protocols do not exist on an Android, so the user doesn't have to 'jailbreak' it to install software from other sources.
"I blame users for not taking the correct precautions on either operating system. My point being this can happen to anyone on any operating system if you are not educating yourself."
How? When one has to be intentionally disabled and the other doesn't have any protections, how can the user be at fault in both cases?
"P.S. you cannot install apps from outside the Market without first changing your setting in Android to "Allow Unknown Sources" and upon checking that you get a huge warning about how this makes your phone more vulnerable to attacks by applications and it is your responsibility to know what you are installing."
First off, many Android users demanded exactly that capability. Such capability does not exist in an iPhone so it becomes inherently impossible for a non-techie to disable the security while that same user, quite likely to be used to similar pop-up windows on their PCs, will simply tap 'OK' and continue on. In other words, Android has made it very easy for anyone to 'accidentally' bypass the OS's security while iOS actively blocks such a simply bypass.
iOS users' fault? Yes -- he did it to himself.
Android users' fault? Not necessarily. Just going to an external app source is all it takes.
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