Imagine no spyware - none, zilch, nada.
Imagine no adware - nothing, zero, not a single one.
Imagine no trojans.
Imagine no viruses - nothing to protect against. Imagine not even _running_ any anti-virus software on your computer.
Imagine computing for 17 years, online for 17 years, and never having had a virus, not once. Ever.
Imagine being able to read _any_ email, without fear. To visit _any_ website you wish, without fear. Imagine be able to download _anything_ you wished, and not even have to check it for infection, or worry about some hidden application buried within it, just waiting to attack your computer.
Imagine turning on your computer with the confidence that you can leave it online a day, a week, a month, and return to find it in exactly the same state - unmolested - as you left it in.
Now, STOP imagining. That's been my personal computing experience (really!) for the last 17 years online.
Impossible, you say? Not if you're using a Mac.
Granted, someone _could_ possibly concoct a virus or some other malaware for OS X. However, if it _does_ happen, it's going to be a "man bites dog" story. It'll be headlines not because it's another virus, but because there has never been an attack on OS X. And it will be dealt with quickly.
I've got a friend at work who has used computers as long (longer?) than I have, but he came from the "PC side" of things. Two of his most memorable comments to me were "it took me ten years to learn DOS", and, "I hate computers!".
I've been fooling with personal computers since 1986 (the Mac since 1987) and I _enjoy_ computers! Why is that?
Cheers!
- John
OS X dittos :-)
Now if someone would just write basic office functionality into the picture like:
I get to keep my categories from Entourage to Palm
Reliable groupware for scheduling on the small network like Time and Chaos or any number of PC programs... Macs have NOTHING decent for that
Then life would be sweet indeed.
Trojans are possible on Macs... they depend on users to install them. It is a "trojan horse" that, but for the user installing it, would be totally innocuous. They pretend to be (and sometime ARE) something useful... but either are totally bogus with dangerous consequences, or in the event they actually DO something useful, also carry hidden consequences.
Imagine computing for 17 years, online for 17 years, and never having had a virus, not once. Ever.
Before OSX there were 97 known viruses for the Mac. There are currently no known viruses for OSX.
Other than those two caveats, I agree with your post...