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MAC OS X share nears 8% of market

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Anything that reduces Microsoft's strangle hold on computing is welcome in my book. I suspect in this case it is more microsoft losing the plot with Vista than Apple doing anything radically different, though I'm sure the change to intel processors had something to do with the first major rise in mac sales.
 
It's true, because, in the mac ads, the cool guy is the mac while the old geezer is a pc.
 
because i will SO rub it into some peoples faces :)
 
It makes me scared for how easily today's youth buy into this crappy company.
 
^ i get that fingers in the ears part a lot from the mac guys :)

"nooo our system always will be secure .. it SO well designed, that has nothing to with the userbase. even when it's popular it still will be secuuuure"

"dude, design in this case doesn't mean it has fancy animations"
 
proof of concept though. Macheads cant keep bosting they are "sooo secure"
 
Keeland said:
Proof of concept. What a laugh. Creating a Mac virus isn't the problem. The problem is in spreading it, as it has been since 1981.
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Name the top five mac viruses of all time.
 
Keeland said:
Norton for OS X caused as much damage as the worst virus imaginable. Some claim it wrecked hard drives permanently. It was so bad even Norton gave up trying to fix it and pulled out of the Mac market, leaving those whose drives it wrecked in the lurch. Turned out no one needed it, anyway.

Norton anti-virus, still sold for OS X, is like the blob that ate Chicago. Its tentacles spread everywhere and is a resource hog whose ravenous appetite for cycles cannot be assuaged. And it's useless, as is any anti-virus app for the Mac. As an exec at Norton acknowledged a couple or three years ago, it searches for Windows viruses only because there are no Mac viruses with which to build a data base.

This is no different than every other Mac anti-virus app, but Norton runs much slower than every other anti-virus app. Complete crap.

This story dates to 2002 and gives some idea of the problems Norton could cause.

IE was a security sieve, didn't (and still doesn't) follow web standards (MS in its hubris tries and fails to railroad its own "standards") and fell way behind other browsers. Tabs finally were introduced when, last year? This year?

MS dropped Mac support in 2005, not that anyone who cared for it was heard over the cheering.
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If Norton was that bad, than definitely a virus.

MS has been creating standards forever. They failed at IE, and IE 6 was just a piece of shit.

As for IE 7 and soon 8, it is just as good as Firefox now, although I would still suggest Firefox.

Why would MS still support IE on a Mac with Safari, which is a shitty browser on a Windows machine. Go figure.
 
^ it's more difficult, yes. but not impossible - a proof of concept does exactly proof that ;). and that's my whole point. IF they get popular there will be virii. so the machead pro mac argument should not be "they are so secure" but "they are no target - at the moment" ;)
 
I would think they would be very much a target with their rapidly rising popularity. That they haven't succumbed yet is testimony to the security of the system. Virus creators, by their very nature, would see this as a major challenge.

I'm sure their time will come but until then the biggest virus I have found on a Mac was Norton, once I got rid of it the machine finally started working properly.

I was in PC World the other day listening to a clueless buffoon telling a customer interested in a Mac that they must get an anti virus program as Macs were just as susceptible to Virii as a PC. I called him on this and it turns out he has never used a Mac.
 
I'd be more than happy to sell other hardware than Mac stuff. I just wouldn't sell an MS O/S they have caused me too much misery over the years, of course you and many others thrive off the misery they cause :)
 
Nah someone has to do it, if they didn't the world as we know it would grind to a halt. So you are in effect one of the emergency services without which all the others would stop. So feel good about yourself ok :) (*8*)
 
MAC OS X share nears 8% of market
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That was me. I just bought an iMac this week, bumping OS X from 7.99999999 to 8% (!w!)

I still don't know if I like it. It's completely new to me. It was a little impulsive on my part, but the handsome boy from the commercials finally sold me. That PC guy is so dumpy and stupid! And the store was so slick looking, I felt like I was like going into an A&F store, but for computers. The workers there were also extremely cool. My salesman was a hottie. He has a lip ring and a little patch of hair on his chin. He was soooooooooooooooo cute. They were all so cute. They could have sold me a deed to the Empire State Building, I was so caught up in the moment. Anyway, this thing had better "just work." I think I'm going to install Vista Ultimate on it :twisted:
 
trawler69 said:
I'd be more than happy to sell other hardware than Mac stuff. I just wouldn't sell an MS O/S they have caused me too much misery over the years, of course you and many others thrive off the misery they cause :)
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Now, this post made me laugh, coz it's so true.

The anti-Mac crowd are very typically computer-savvy people. And I don't dispute what they say (mostly), except when it applies to NON computer-savvy people. I worked exclusively with Windows for years, and was always the guy that friends called whnen their computers fucked up - regularly.

In the past 2 years I've pushed my friends toward Macs. In the past 12 months I've successfully recommended 16 friends to buy Macs (all toward one dealer - as a result, he's giving me a free iPhone 3G next week - woo hoo!) and the reality is I virtually NEVER get support calls from them. The machines are intuitive and typically don't fuck up.

So maybe I've become a fanboy, I guess. But personal experience has proved to me that Macs mean less support time than Windows.

My own opinion is this: Windows is all about features. Apple is all about user experience. iPods, iPhone's and Macs are gaining popularity because they are easy to use, are intuitive, and do what they promise.

Vista seems just as secure as Mac OS. You can no longer compare current OS X to Win XP, they're not the same generation. A year or two from now, the virus-dilemmas that Vista face will be no greater than those faced by Mac OS. There's a reason that Apple no longer push their "no virus" sales-point: they know their virus-free days are numbered.

But for me, I'll recommend Mac to Vista to my friends any day of the week, for all the reasons I've mentioned above. For people who don't want or need to understand what's going on under the hood, Macs just behave. And that, along with slick marketing, is why their market share is increasing rapidly.
 
I think I'm going to install Vista Ultimate on it
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No please don't, I have XP on my mac for the few custom progs for work that won't run on OSX and even that makes me start swearing.

If you need any help or tips for OSX us Mac users will always be happy to help.

like andysayshi says macs are much more intuitive and pleasurable to use. I have converted about 4 people and the otherday sold a Mac in PC World. The salesman, who hadn't a clue, actually thanked me and said I should apply for a job there. I sold the top of the range Imac with the time capsule and everything :)
 
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