Snow Leopard Shipping With Anti-Malware Protection

Wow Caliban, and you think Apple isn't all about marketing? Have you watched one of their recent ads? Talk about hyperbole. Did you come up with that, or was the cheque by Steve Jobs enough?

10% of the market makes you an non-target to most malware authors. It's simply not worth the time. I'm not disputing they might not need anti-virus protection - I'm disputing the reasons. It's not because it's 'secure', as has been shown by the numerous vulnerabilities that have surfaced, it's because it's irrelevant.

In fact, the vulnerabilities underscore it - despite them being there, they've rarely been taken advantage of. It's the equivalent of a burglar seeing an open door and saying 'nah, not worth the time'.

This is not a statement about how good or not good OXS is. Just some reality on the world of malware. If Macs suddenly had 50% of the market place, there would be a scramble to write anti-virus software and we'd be hearing about how many macs are part of the bot nets.

Caliban - the interesting thing is that joe blow on the street isn't laughing or crying about new features in OSX. They don't care. Nor do most of them care how Windows 7 or Vista was written. For most of them, the price is the issue and as long as apple continues to charge a 'branding' fee, it's going to hurt them. Most people hardly use any of the fancy features.

Personally, I can't stand apple as a company any more than MS. They are not more honest than microsoft or any less out to make a buck at the users expense - they simply do it differently. Anyone that can't see that is simply suffering from fanboism.

I have no love of microsoft either - it's what my clients use so it's where I write my software. Again, that 10% thing - my choice is to write software on an OS that has 80%+ of the deskstops or 10%. That's an easy decision. The day macs have relevant chop of the _corporate_ desktop market, I'll start writing software for them.