Hmmmmm. OK. It's just as hackable as a system that now has upwards of 500,000 known malware... but it has only 8 known trojans that require the complicity of the user to invade the system, and zero self-replicating, self-transmitting viruses, and zero spyware. Nine years of OS X and counting and still no need to run anti-virus, anti-spyware, or any other protective applications.
Just exactly what is the magic number when the Mac becomes popular enough to attract thieves and hackers? Is 10,000,000 enough? How about 20,000,000?
The Witty Worm was written by hackers to exploit a vulnerability in just 10,000 Black Ice firewall protected Windows PCs... and infected every single one of them within 45 minutes of being released in the wild.
A Spam-bot of just a few hundred or a few thousand Windows PCs is a very useful and valuable construct... yet there are ZERO Mac spam-bots sending out spam. Why is that?
There are now over 32 million OS X Macs in the world—surveys have shown that Mac owners are more prosperous and have more disposable dollars than PC users—yet the thieves are not going after them?99% of those Mac users are unprotected by anti-virus or anti-spy applications, yet they are NOT being successfully attacked by the thieves and hackers of the world. I would think they would be considered sitting ducks. Why aren't Macs being exploited left and right? Why aren't there thousands of Mac Spam Bots?
It certainly is not due to security by obscurity.