Name one. I haven't heard of ANY viruses for Mac OSX. Not that you couldn't write them. Not that there are not security holes in Mac OSX, as in every OS. Windows in fact is not particularly rife with them, it is just that it is the focus of all the hackers in the world. There are plenty of flaws in Linux too, and proprietry UNIX, BSD, the lot. Apple. to their credit, frequently issue patches to their system. To characterise these as "serious" when they present the same level of potential threat as they do in Windows would be misleading and would just confuse their client base, which is WHOLLY different to the user base of Windows. To call a flaw "serious" at the end of the day is a value judgement. There are few if any "serious" security flaws in Mac OSX because with 3% of the computers in the world they are just not the focus of any security hackers out there. An interesting analogy: when Apple introduced AAC and it was only available for months on the Mac no one hacked it. Two weeks after they released the Windows version of iTunes it was broken. It's all a question of focus.
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Name one. I haven't heard of ANY viruses for Mac OSX. Not that you couldn't write them. Not that there are not security holes in Mac OSX, as in every OS. Windows in fact is not particularly rife with them, it is just that it is the focus of all the hackers in the world. There are plenty of flaws in Linux too, and proprietry UNIX, BSD, the lot. Apple. to their credit, frequently issue patches to their system. To characterise these as "serious" when they present the same level of potential threat as they do in Windows would be misleading and would just confuse their client base, which is WHOLLY different to the user base of Windows. To call a flaw "serious" at the end of the day is a value judgement. There are few if any "serious" security flaws in Mac OSX because with 3% of the computers in the world they are just not the focus of any security hackers out there. An interesting analogy: when Apple introduced AAC and it was only available for months on the Mac no one hacked it. Two weeks after they released the Windows version of iTunes it was broken. It's all a question of focus.