Fortunately, he's not in a deferential mood today! The Macalope's dad always says "if your antlers aren't sharp on one side, find someone else whose are." The Macalope still isn't exactly sure what that means, but to solve his current dilemma he spoke to Rich Mogull of , who had this to say:

Kaspersky is correct, someday someone will probably get an evil app into the App Store or exploit a legitimate app and circumvent the iOS security and sandboxing. But I'm not convinced any AV vendor would be able to discover and stop this app any faster than Apple could yank it from the store. And I don't think this will ever be a rampant problem like it currently is on Android.

I'll take a more-secure platform over AV any day of the week. Thinking AV is the only way to prevent malware is a very myopic view.

Indeed. Myopic and, of course, self-serving. Kaspersky:

The result of an attack on iOS, he feels, will be declining market share for Apple and a concomitant boost for Android, a platform he admits is less secure but which at least offers developers the chance to develop security software.