Why would iOS be safer from spying than a well setup Android phone?

What? Why do you troll so much?

Is this a safari-only newsgroup?

Or, are you really so stuck in the stone age that you actually think that the primitive and restrictive Safari is the *only* browser on iOS?

Or, are you so limited in your choices of browsers, that you can't imagine anyone using a modern browser that supports the latest HTML5 specification (even though it is a few years old by now).

Sheesh.

You say "I" troll, but Jeff kindly brought this topic up, and he wasn't trolling when he brought it up. I was simply responding to Jeff ... so, as always, *you* are the troll accusing me of bringing this topic up when all I did was flesh it out (every single time - the troll is *always* you!).

You add *zero* value. And you accuse people who do add value of things that only you do!

It's funny, but you don't even *remember* how this was brought up - that's how little you count to the discussion!

Anyway, despite your childish lack of usable memory and your constantly annoying trolling behavior, my response to your specific Safari question is that I don't know anything about the primitive Safari app since I wouldn't be caught dead using such a restrictive browser.

Therefore, I don't know whether Safari supports the latest battery api in the HTML5 specification or not - so it behooves you to figure out whether Safari has been updated to support HTML5 components such as the battery API.

Apple is so slow to update their apps that I'd guess being five years behind everyone else is pretty normal for them - so you might actually be safe with the primitive Safari app after all.

I mean, the most important thing in the world to you is for Apple to keep you safe, isn't it? So, this time, Apple may have saved you from the modern HTML5 specification. Sometimes, doing nothing to improve your apps works out for the best.

In fact, knowing how primitive and restrictive Safari is, I'd take a guess that Safari probably does not yet support this relatively recent (2012) HTML5 component, since Safari is still stuck in the stone age, so, you're probably safe this time due to the primitive nature of Apple products (which would be a good thing in this case so I congratulate you on your choice of browsers).

If my guess is right that Safari is still stuck in the stone age, then the topic that Jeff brought up about the HTML5 specification Battery API is still relevant to the more modern browsers that are available on iOS.

But, you're probably safe if you stick with Safari (which was probably never updated to the latest HTML5 specification, knowing Apple).

So most of iOS is unaffected. Thanks for playing! : )

Troll on.

it's amazing how much useless nonsensical spew he can generate without ever finding the very 'facts' he claims to seek.

It's what he does best. And as usual, he falls flat on his face when confronted with reality. He's a piss poor old troll.

Funny coming from you ... who has never once told the truth.

Your URL simply says that, as I predicted, that Safari is primitive code that doesn't even support the modern battery-status HTML5 spec which debuted years ago.

Since your primary motive in using iOS is fear, this primitive code served you well in this case.

However, your main approach is to "Just Give Up", so, that's why you never once considered that there are more modern browsers out there for iOS.

You, like the Jolly Roger troll, never once added value to a single conversation of fact. You can't actually add value.

That's because: a. You're afraid b. You want Apple Marketing to save you c. You can only think of 1 way to do anything, and if that 1 way fails, you "just give up".

It's an Apple one-button-mouse trademark term: *"Just Give Up"*

Luckily, since you use Safari, and since Safari gave up long ago on modern improvements in the HTML5 spec, just giving up has kept you safe.

Congratulations! Hiding under the iOS rock has its benefits in safety after all.

Says Jolly Troll himself.

Your contribution to this thread is .... what?

PS: Given your zero contribution ever, should we call you Jolly Troll or Troll Roger?

first you babble that the battery status is a 'privacy exploit' and that it should be disabled, then when it's shown that safari is not vulnerable at all, you call safari primitive.

you can't have it both ways.

not only that, but most of the browsers listed are based on apple's webkit, so if you're going to say that safari is primitive code, you're also saying that android, chrome and opera are just as primitive, given that they also use webkit.

so much for your 'facts'.

So lame. He's fooling nobody here.

Indeed. Corollary: noone can exploit the battery-status spyware capabilities using Safari; i.e., Safari (precisely because of its greater primitivity) is a more secure browser in that regard.

I should have thought that should make you happy :-) . Cheers, -- tlvp

except that it's not more primitive because it shares a common codebase with android, chrome and opera, just different forks.

By now, they're *very* different forks. There's been close to zero cross-pollination for some time.

Can you folk please drop sci.electronics.repair from the newsgroup list? Android v iOS discussions have no place there.

You can certainly ask the OP, Aardvarks (a well known Apple hating nym switching troll), to refrain from including that group. Just don't hold your breath.