Join em... or so the saying goes. Apple has been around as long as any of the other major computer makers. Yet it still only manages to garner a very small share of the computer market. Depending on your point of view, that can be a good thing.
By having such a small market it does afford a bit of protection for its users. Very few malicious minded people will spend the time to write code that will attack so few when they can put the fear into millions more far easier on the windows platform. That does go both ways though. Few legitimate software developers will invest the money, time and effort to develop programs for the Mac platform for the very same reasons. The other problem that a lot of people had with Mac's was its very proprietary platform. It limited what could be done to modify a Mac. Things are changing at Apple.
A while back Apple announced that it was switching from IBM's Power PC CPU's to Intel CPU's.
Today, Apple CEO, Steve Jobs announced that Mac's internet browser, Safari, which only has 5% of the browser market, is now also available free for the PC. This is a beta version which might have a few bugs to work out, but I am going to give it a try, even if it is just for giggles a shits...
I can't help but wonder if these are just the first steps towards taking a bigger leap into the PC realm for Apple?
Monday, June 11, 2007
If You Can't Beat Em
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ABF has shown me what they can do. I'm seriously considering one!
I'm sure he has... brain washing you he is...lol
They can do what every computer can do... crunch numbers... turn key strokes into something we humans can recognize... I choose PC's simply for the fact that the programs I use are readily available for windows and most of those are free programs. The ones that are not I already own and see no reason to re invest in new ones for a mac... my old PIII 1 ghz still hums along quite well for everything I need it to do. As a matter of fact since building this one a few years back... work has upgraded all their computers with P4's and I find they run slower than my home built PIII. Go figure.
I know PC's/ windows inside and out....mac not so much....
Sorry dude.... your arguments are not very valid about market share ... and malicious code. If it was that easy they would be attacked constantly, as they were in the Linux world for a lot of years. M$ success is based on marketing and copying ideas from other manufacturers.
I can't use M$ in my world ... the code is just to full of holes, and doesn't pass the tests. You can use whatever you like... but we can't take the risk.
Sorry dude.... your arguments are not very valid about market share ... and malicious code. If it was that easy they would be attacked constantly, as they were in the Linux world for a lot of years. M$ success is based on marketing and copying ideas from other manufacturers.
I can't use M$ in my world ... the code is just to full of holes, and doesn't pass the tests. You can use whatever you like... but we can't take the risk.
AB... AB... the market share I have stated here is from Steve Jobs himself... the market share I have stated here is from Steve Jobs himself... I am not by any means saying that Mac OSes are as vulnerable as are windows OSes. All I am saying is that far fewer "hackers" will spend the time trying to as it is far easier and will effect far more users by aiming at the MS market. I will say here and now that if there were as many people poking around Mac OSes they would eventually find ways to attack them as well. Nothing is perfect. The odds are simply in Mac's favour by far for the time being.
I am not by any means saying that Mac OSes are as vulnerable as are windows OSes. All I am saying is that far fewer "hackers" will spend the time trying to as it is far easier and will effect far more users by aiming at the MS market. I will say here and now that if there were as many people poking around Mac OSes they would eventually find ways to attack them as well. Nothing is perfect. The odds are simply in Mac's favour by far for the time being.
I hope I have addressed both of your posts......;)
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