[for-q-clinton]

Yep. I always said once they get popular enough they will be attacked. Now the iBots are going to spin, spin, spin.

[for-q-clinton]

ping & spin please :-)

[SpaceBar]

It’s almost as if the unstated goal of all articles, editorials etc, is to pick some controversial issue (OS security in this case), throw in some cherry-picked anecdotal ‘evidence’, make blanket statements and loosely worded proclamations.... then stand back and watch the fireworks as both sides duke it out.

[USNBandit]

There was a screw up that I ran into with iOS 8.3. Many of the most popular GPS receivers used in aviation stopped connecting to their apps. I was able to revert a few i devices back to 8.2, but then Apple stopped “signing” versions of 8.2 leaving one of the office iPads isles for its primary purpose. Supposed to be fixed with 8.4

[dila813]

Apple Products are Bullet Proof, So say we all...signed ibots

[Nifster]

Oooooh goody. Words of wisdom from a guy who’s degree is in journalism PLUS he works for that well known tech company CNN.

Just another yob who doesn’t know his head from a whole in the ground

[Swordmaker]

"But security features that would have prevented the celebrity iCloud episode -- like requiring a text message as a second passcode -- are precisely an engineering problem. To Apple's credit, it eventually added that crucial feature to iCloud."

The "fappening" was not a failure of Apple's security. Apple already had two factor identification in place before any of the others implemented it. . . But the celebrities accounts were NOT compromised by hacking their passwords. They were compromised by social engineering their security questions. . . which only worked because they WERE celebrities and they published the answers to such questions in fanzine biographies. This is an example of this article not having a clue about the topic it is talking about.

[VeniVidiVici]

I was a hardware tester on the Win95 team. We released Win95 with over 40,000 open bugs.

But it was still a great operating system :)

[ctdonath2]

Amazing.
Major straw man set up in the very first sentence.
Little point in reading further.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Eh. Apple fixes flaws that surface.

Some are FUD.

There is no question they are safer. I’ve run a MAC for 6 years without a single virus.

My Windoz machine had me working as an unpaid, full-time MS support tech.

[867V309]

You really know how to hack Swordswallower off. Like waving a Christian in front of a queer.

[tbw2]

To what degree did the switch from Objective C to Swift also have with the decline of quality?

[__rvx86]

I somewhat had an inkling that this would happen—the day System 10 moved to AMD64, it was going to happen, sooner rather than later.

If Apple had decided to use System 9 as the base for System 10, would we end up radically different from where we are today, in terms of features, User Experience, &c?

They could have improved the memory manager to a greater extent; since Freescale 68k-based Macs were already obsolete by 2001, there was very little need to maintain compatibility with it, for example.

They could make a break from the past—but it didn’t have to be as dramatic as it turned out to be.

In any case, the UNIX integration, and the subsequent cut-over to AMD64 were big mistakes in terms of security.

[2ndDivisionVet]