What a load. Experience tells otherwise.
I know experience has told me that all Systems are vulnerable. And with Microsoft having over 90% of the PC market you think they'd be #1, but reality is they have really learned a lot from being the top dog and have really improved security.
If Apple ever gets a decent market share with Macs they'll need to learn quickly or their secure reputation will tank. Instead of marketing security they should have been fixing things and working on improving thier code and architecture.
Pawn2Own has proven 3 years in a row that OSX is the easiest/quickest to hack.
“What a load. Experience tells otherwise.”
Exactly! My Etch-A-Sketch has never been hacked, and I use it all the time in starbucks!
Therefore, with my argument, my Etch-A-Sketch is better than your Mac.
Oh, and “Bob’s OS” is the most secure. It has never been hacked. Nevermind that Bob is the only person using his OS, it has 100% reliability.
All kidding aside, I’m not sure which OS is more secure. I don’t really care, I ran apple products up to the mid 80’s when IBM compatibles took over the market place due to more software available, and the open end system. Lotus 123 was the changing point for us.
I love being able to customize my system, build new systems, and I like the broad variety of software available to my PC. And I have never been the victim of a virus. Oh yeah, I don’t hang out on porn sites or other nefarious sites.
My kid uses Windows as well, but he’s a teen, and we’ve had to wipe his system a few times. Not really an issue, we know he’s young, we know he probably visits more high-risk sites, we know he downloads every app he can get his hands on, opens every email that comes along, but at the same time, he has nothing of value on his system other than his games, so its no biggie, he doesn’t even back up his system.
We have had a Mac in the house for a few years now, but it sits idle, except when our girls want to surf the web and the other computers are in use. We don’t use it for business, because the standard is Excel and Word, and all our forms must be submitted in these formats.
Oh yeah, the pricetag too. I can build a PC at home for a fraction of the cost of buying a pre-made PC, and at a fraction of a fraction (is there such a thing?) of what I can buy an Apple for.
If Apple ever became the standard that most folks would use, and the price dropped, and I could tinker with them, build them from scratch, and get all the software I needed, I would switch.