Spectre Wreaks Havoc As iPhone 6 Performance Drops By 40% In Both Single And Multi-Core Benchmarks

Ah, speculative execution. Man’s ever needing desire to get more done in less time resulted in a similar design for microprocessors. With the third wave maturing and on the brink of fading, speed is all that matters today. Information is available in the blink of an eye and requires similar speeds for decision making. Hesitate, and you’re done for. However, in the microprocessor case, this didn’t serve us too well. Speculative Execution on microprocessor didn’t account for what would happen should past usage trends not materialize. When we talk about every day processes, such as reading the news, this matters less. But move to sensitive processes and the problem is obvious. Now, we’ve got more on the Spectre and Meltdown patches w.r.t the iPhone 6 and it isn’t good.

Apple iPhone 6 Benchmarked Before And After Spectre Patch; Shows Massive Drops In Single And Multi Core Performance

you say give it a rest already but then your final sentence goes on to yet again proclaim Apple's superiority with this: "It’s not 100%, as complex systems are rarely flawless, but it’s better than just about anything out there."

That's just not true and here you are proving my point. So apparently this dead horse wasn't beaten years ago as you are still claiming superiority over all which was my point. It's just NOT true no matter how much you try to convince yourself.

Obviously people are entitled to their opinions. Having worked & programmed deep inside numerous OS ecosystems, it’s my professional opinion that UNIX is among the most secure OSes out there, and macOS & iOS are among the best implementations thereof.

And I didn’t say “over all”, I said “just about”. Sure you can find more secure OSes, feel free to point me at one and explain why it matters.

Asserting, repeatedly, “it’s just not true” does not inspire any objective confidence in your impassioned prolonged pointless assaults on Apple. You’re consistently relying on (A) references to decade-old casual colloquial comments, and (B) lab-condition exploits requiring weapons-grade stupidity to make useful in the real world, which are promptly fixed at the OS level within days of discovery. You’re trying to win an argument for the sake of winning it, even though nobody truly gives a * about your position thereon.

My job is implementing security on iOS apps. I’ve coded on Windows, UNIX, and numerous custom & specialized embedded OSes for major corporations. I was programming when “hacking”, “viruses”, and “malware” became a thing. So yeah, my opinion is informed and meaningful.

Yes, Apple’s security isn’t 100% perfect. Duh. Nobody’s is, and that’s proven by the state-of-the-art exploits re: Spectre and Meltdown, which do things that _NOBODY_ thought could happen until some genius (and I mean that word) figured out how.

Upshot of your dead-horse argument:
- Windows still requires 3rd-party “anti-malware” apps for sufficient security.
- macOS & iOS don’t.

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