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‘In other words you have no evidence whatsoever. ‘

yeah only apples website.

“It’s no surprise, because OS X has been remarkably free of malware”

Unsurprisingly apple has code installed to prevent malware.

“Ignorance has nothing to do with it; many of us use OS X precisely because we’re informed about security.”

Willfull ignorance

‘But I don’t expect you to acknowledge that. You’re too busy hating and hating and hating. When you’re not spewing half-baked FUD.”

You just couldn’t hold it back could you, all that hate filling you up.

"only apples website."

Prove it. Link, or dry up.

"Unsurprisingly apple has code installed to prevent malware."

Sigh. That canard again. What you refer to is a mechanism which prevents the user from approvingly installing software, such as cracked versions of commercial packages, containing hidden functionality (that is, trojan horse functionality). That says nothing more or less about the OS' security than being frisked before entry to a sensitive military installation-- in fact, that's an exactly parallel analogy. Would you prefer an OS allow installation of known bad stuff? Would you prefer the government allow folks known to associate with terrorists to walk right into the White House? ...um, maybe that's a bad example...

"You just couldn’t hold it back could you, all that hate filling you up."

I do not hate you, but I'm getting mighty tired of wild accusations with no backup and impugning fine products out of some sort of twisted personal agenda. I commented on another thread of this sort that it's as though Steve Jobs ran over someone's puppy. Now look: Sitting within cat-swinging distance of me right now is this Mac, four PCs running various flavors of Windows, another Mac, two more PCs running Linux, and a Sun Ultra2 SparcStation running Solaris, plus a gaggle of virtual machines of various configurations and OSes. All support my day to day work. So I have something you seem to lack: perspective, and an open mind. And I'm here to tell you that for most users there is no better, more economical or safer choice for a personal computer than the Mac (though I find myself recommending the iPad to more and more folks for personal computing purposes), and there's no smartphone that will make most people happier than the iPhone. They're marvelous products, the baseless yapping and whinging of the fact-challenged aside. While I'm at it: Windows 7 is much improved, but in my experience folks will have fewer frustrations (and many fewer hidden costs) with the Mac or iPad; Windows XP needs to die fast; Linux is fun for geeks like me but not for Jane or Joe Average; Android is promising but too chaotic, poorly-policed and dangerous for me to recommend at this time.