How it's OK is likely because there hasn't been a huge category-5 fuck up yet. Or at least none that we know of. Some of this is probably from sheer luck. Some of it is probably from some decent security design baked in like sandboxing and the like. The first time it becomes public that 80% or more of Android users just had their personal info stolen, it'll suddenly become not okay. Especially if that user group contains significant amounts of celebrities and government types.
It's not all doom and gloom though- there have been improvements. Different partitioning schemes, breaking out core services out of firmware and into the play store, etc. It's just that thus far Samsung, the biggest Android player by far, has decided not to implement all of them.
It's not all doom and gloom though- there have been improvements. Different partitioning schemes, breaking out core services out of firmware and into the play store, etc. It's just that thus far Samsung, the biggest Android player by far, has decided not to implement all of them.