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Weblog:   Mac's New Slogan: Viruses for the Rest of Us
Subject:   PC Pundits Incapable of Acknowledging Reality
Date:   2005-03-23 00:11:21
From:   sammy90483
I find it a frail argument, on the part of many Windows-loving pundits, that the Macintosh platform has not experienced a virus in over ten years just because of its relatively small market share. Symantec has on record, over 100,000 virues/trojans/worms. Apple's marketshare is only 3%. So wouldn't you expect that about 3,000 of those virus/trojans/worms would be written for the Mac? And yet the reality is, there is NOT A SINGLE known piece of malware for the Macintosh OS X platform going into its fifth year of the existence.


True, Apple and other companies should be actively plugging security holes, but the hesitation of many PC pundits to switch to a Macintosh is more a matter of pride and foolishness than good reason. It's like saying "A car from Honda could breakdown so I'll keep buying cars from Ford."


Idiocrity begets Mediocrity.
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  • PC Pundits Incapable of Acknowledging Reality
    2005-03-23 08:47:42  DanCoulter [Reply | View]

    Actually, I don't switch because Macs are overpriced and can't run all of the applications I need. My personal computer is a very powerful machine that I built for the cost of a pretty meager Mac. Also...the number of spyware and virus infections I've had in the two years of operation on two concurrent Windows XP systems? Zero. Before that I was running an XP and a 2000 system at the same time and it was years since I had gotten spyware or viruses on my computer.

    I don't hate Macs and love Windows. If Linux did everything I wanted, I'd probably move to that for my desktop computing. But it doesn't and neither does Mac. It has nothing to do with pride. It has to do with power and software capability.

    By the way, "idiocrity" isn't, ironically enough, a real word.
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