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Macs Gaining a Bigger Role In Enterprise
rev_media tips a short article up at InfoWorld giving some numbers on the increasing Mac presence in businesses. "We're seeing more requests outside of creative services to switch to Macs from PCs," notes the operations manager for a global advertising conglomerate. They "now [support] 2,500 Macs across the US — nearly a quarter of all... US PCs." Another straw in the wind: "Security firm Kapersky Labs has already created a Mac version of its anti-virus software for release should Mac growth continue (and the Mac thus [find] itself prey to more hackers)."
Linux will never get like that though (-1 flamebait, -1 troll, -1 offtopic). Unless the worst viruses in the world are interested in your music collection, stored in your home folder. Correct me if I'm wrong, but for a virus to run on a Linux machine, the user would have to either knowingly execute it, or run a program that executes it. And even then, unless the user does it as root, the virus is almost totally harmless to the system.
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
There's enough people looking for a dock that there's multiple companies selling kludges that sort of give you some of the functionality of a dock at much greater expense... and selling enough to keep doing it.
And I'd rather Apple tuned down the "simple and elegant" knob a bit. Simplicity and elegance means my Macbook Pro has one of the worst keyboards on a laptop, ever, and I have to go cap-in-hand to the "genius bar" to get a bad hard drive replaced, and the way they cram everything in... when I'm doing anything complex like encoding a movie I have to pull the battery out or it overheats. This isn't "feature bloat" this is "minimum requirements". If it wasn't for the OS I would never spend one dime on an Apple product.