Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk'

Re:Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk' by yellowapple on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @04:50PM (#9501706)

I'm not sure if the "free" antivirus counts as "differentiating", since it's almost always - without fail - either McAfee or Norton.

With that said, differentiating by custom UIs on top of the base platform (i.e. the Android approach) would be much better, and would be actually-useful differentiation rather than a matter of "well which company's going to fuck me over the least with their preinstalled shitware?".

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Re:Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk' by joshstrange on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @04:57PM (#9501768)

I personally dislike custom UI's shipped by the phone manufacturer because more often than not it leads to delays in OS updates due to them needing to adapt their UI to core changes. Customization (by manufacturers) can come at a very high price for the end user in terms of security and upgradability.

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Re:Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk' by yellowapple on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @06:14PM (#9502137)

Right, but that's leaps and bounds better than "free" McAfee, no matter which way you skin it.

This also isn't exactly universally true. HTC was pretty responsive in getting Lollipop out to my One M8, for example, even with its whole "Sense UI" shebang.

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Re:Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk' by dheera on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @10:35PM (#9503017)

Not to mention I find 90% of those custom UIs look horrible and cluttered compared to Google's original design.

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