Linked by alcibiades on Tue 30th May 2006 20:40 UTC
Dell and its business model has been the focus of a lot of comment on Apple oriented forums in recent months. The Dell model is said to be unviable, and Dell's recent news is said to prove this. A limited endorsement of sorts for the so called "end to end model" in music has been published by Walt Mossberg in the WSJ. Recently a real sky-is-falling article with this theme has appeared here. This is a subject that matters. If the advocates of the so-called "end to end model" are right, it implies that the industry structure which allows us all to source hardware from wherever we want, and run a variety of OSs on it, is in danger.
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2006-01-08
Well, there's OS X, but it's not a very popular OS, and it shows.
Well because it only runs (legally, a generic PC version is available online) on Apple hardware.
No one writes viruses for OS X,
Well they try, but it's difficult, if I was a hacker I would be glad to get a "name" for being the first one that did. Market share has something to do with not many people having access to Mac OS X to write viruses too. I'll admit that.
but no one writes other software either. OS X definitely has a shockingly high amount of apps available considering its marketshare, but it still doesn't come close to what's available for Windows,
How many apps does one need? Really, think about it. Sure when it comes to games, Windows has the advantage. Because Apple never created a cheap gamers box.
and if you need just one app which is only for Windows, OS X is no good.
Depends if it will run under Virtual PC or not, now with Apple's "BootCamp" if there is a piece of Windows software it can be run, in the malware Windows if necessary.
And if OS X became more popular, then people would write viruses for it, and there goes one of the main reasons people would consider switching.
Mac OS x is getting more popular and more exploits have been discovered and get patched quickly, but so far no viruses because the OS has certain compartmentialized security if you reseach more about it. Mac OS X is a new OS that addresses fundamental flaws that occurs in Windows that makes it so insecure. There are bugs, but there isn't any structural flaws that can't be fixed like Windows has.
I have fummed at Apple before because they haven't checked their code enough to make sure the bugs didn't make it into the world. But it's immensly more secure than Windows will ever be because Microsoft understands the world wants insecure computers.