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It’s still a valid question. We have this huge corporation that’s doing so many things, constantly lobbying for policy, obscene revenue all while people are exploiting the apk out of their OS. In fact, looking at the news this week, the same question applies to Microsoft and Apple as well. Are they too big and distracted to care about security?
For many experienced software engineers Microsoft has had a reputation for poor software engineering when it comes to security, reliability, stability, scalability for 30 years. Google generally has the reputation of doing much better in those areas. Not sure what would be objective measures to compare.
How about how easily spyware developers brag about being able to defeat the OS?