Militants "Al Qaeda" and other terrorist groups in the Middle East are increasingly refuse from the iPhone in favor of smartphones running the operating system Android. It is reported by the monitoring company Recorded Future.
According to published data, the jihadists actively used before the iPhone and iPad, but the exposure of the ex-CIA officer Edward Snowden forced them to go to the operating system developed by Google.
Their applications for Android is in "Al-Qaeda», Global Islamic Media Front, guns groups in Syria, "Al-Fajr", as well as in Iraq exciting "Islamic State of Iraq and Sham." At the same time, some fundamentalists pay tribute to "classics" and use devices on Symbian.
Another reason why the terrorists choose Android, is an online store Google Play. After add the app is much easier than in the App Store. Moreover, terrorists are afraid that Apple is actively cooperating with the West, and transmits them to the information that can contribute to the frustration of the militants.
A few days ago it was reported that after Snowden made public materials about tapping the U.S. around the world, representatives of the "Al-Qaeda" were to change the software on their computers so that intelligence agencies could not read data from them. Besides computers were modified smartphones iPhone and Android-based device.