Lazy sloppy local news like reporting of the Android malware problem

Most smartphones out there are Android devices. I ask all of you Android users:

Have you been harmed by...MALWARE!?

How?

What were the costs and other damages to you and your business due to Android...MALWARE!

I'm guessing virtually zero, right? Or exactly zero, perhaps?

Mobile Marketer, which really should know better, has a long piece on how GOOGLE (may) NOT DOING ENOUGH TO FIGHT MALWARE!

The *entire* piece repeatedly lays the charge that:

malware continues to be a problem for Google

The *entire* piece is based -- solely -- on direct quotes from two private companies that *directly* benefit when users and potential users fear (not experience) harm may come to their smartphone:

“Google figured out there are a lot of malicious apps on the market and it is getting worse every day,” said Dmitry Bestuzhev, head of global research and analysis team for Latin America at Kaspersky Labs, Woburn, MA. “Before it becomes a real nightmare, they wanted to filter out malicious apps.

“Bouncer is a much-needed step, however it seems like it will not be completely effective in detecting all malicious apps,” he said.

Being that the article is written by a "journalist" we must have a second source! (whether or not that 'source' is just data culled from a web page)

In the mean time, malware continues to be a problem for Google.

McAfee Labs reported last year that the amount of malware targeted at Android devices jumped nearly 37 percent from the previous quarter, with nearly all new mobile malware in the third quarter targeted at Android.

What bullshit.

How many people have been harmed? What is the *real* damage? The costs?

How many apps are malware?

Where are these apps from? Who are downloading them?

Writing a press release on behalf of security companies does not actually help users.