There's a big difference between a platform with several hundred thousand known pieces of malware in the wild vs a platform with a tiny handful of what are mostly proof-of-concept apps.
Open vs closed & other religious wars aside, it's ridiculous to imply that both platforms carry the same risk to end users.
I didn't say that nor imply it. What I said was that both platforms do have documented cases of malware. The post I replied to made the obviously false claim that the iOS store has never had malware.
I'd like to point out that "in the wild" on android literally means "they're not in the play store", but rather downloaded from somewhere else.
The play store scans every submitted the apps for malware (in the last versions it also scans applications NOT installed through the play store).
I don't want to be pedantic, it's just that I know more about this platform and I would like to be corrected if I say something wrong about platforms that I'm not familiar with.
Open vs closed & other religious wars aside, it's ridiculous to imply that both platforms carry the same risk to end users.