Simplicity
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Oh great, that probably leaves me as some stupid orc or something.
My apologies if my snark has gone too far. He sometimes gets out of hand, when I talk about the One Button to Rule Them All.
I agree that Apple OS has some intrinsic security qualities. I would say the same thing about Windows. The only thing that I would consider a selling point between the two is the superiority of those security qualities. I don't think Apple's instrinsic security is superior to Windows.
To further your analogy: Just because a house is burning down, doesn't mean the fire alarm is worse than the one in the house next door that isn't on fire. The arsonist might just really like to burn THAT house.
Apple OS does do security updates, but a lot of time it's shared code (when OpenSSL gets updated, you gotta update everything that uses it. When a vulnerability in the GIF format is found, Windows and Apple need to jump on it). Windows does security updates as well.
Because the viruses often affect Windows machines, Windows tends to do more updates.
Unless bugs are being introduced by the updates (and they can often be), the Windows products should tend to grow more secure over time. Apple security is just untried in battle, and until it becomes a target, it's capabilities are an unknown. But I have no reason to believe that it's any better than Windows would have been BEFORE all the updates they've made in response to attacks.
Oh yeah. GROG SMASH! FIRE BURN!
My apologies if my snark has gone too far. He sometimes gets out of hand, when I talk about the One Button to Rule Them All.
I agree that Apple OS has some intrinsic security qualities. I would say the same thing about Windows. The only thing that I would consider a selling point between the two is the superiority of those security qualities. I don't think Apple's instrinsic security is superior to Windows.
To further your analogy: Just because a house is burning down, doesn't mean the fire alarm is worse than the one in the house next door that isn't on fire. The arsonist might just really like to burn THAT house.
Apple OS does do security updates, but a lot of time it's shared code (when OpenSSL gets updated, you gotta update everything that uses it. When a vulnerability in the GIF format is found, Windows and Apple need to jump on it). Windows does security updates as well.
Because the viruses often affect Windows machines, Windows tends to do more updates.
Unless bugs are being introduced by the updates (and they can often be), the Windows products should tend to grow more secure over time. Apple security is just untried in battle, and until it becomes a target, it's capabilities are an unknown. But I have no reason to believe that it's any better than Windows would have been BEFORE all the updates they've made in response to attacks.
Oh yeah. GROG SMASH! FIRE BURN!
