alt Hacker News> as long as you don't grant dangerous permissions and your kernel is not outdated
There's like 2 or maybe 3 phone models in the world without an outdated kernel in Android.
And then sure, Android and iOS sandboxing is better but in the same time, the quality of the apps and the vetting is 100x worse than your average Linux distribution so I'm not sure that makes up the difference.
In Linux there is no vetting. Does anyone verify proprietary AI agents like Claude Code? Software like VS Code? Games? They are distributed through random sites and cannot even be banned.
You could restrict yourself to the official repositories, but there is a limited selection of software. There are no closed-source software, like audio editing plugins, graphic editors, games, AI agents and so on. Even open-source software is often missing in official repositories.