On the Mac/PC divide...
May. 5th, 2006 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aribSo, Apple's rolling out a bunch of new commercials for the Macintosh.
One selling point that they use is that there aren't very many viruses out there that attack Macs, while there are thousands that attack PCs.
Thing is, people don't write Mac viruses only because fewer people own Macs, not necessarily because of some magical software posessed by the Macintosh.
So, if lots of people buy Macs, more viruses will be written for Macs. It's a vicious cycle!
:-)
One selling point that they use is that there aren't very many viruses out there that attack Macs, while there are thousands that attack PCs.
Thing is, people don't write Mac viruses only because fewer people own Macs, not necessarily because of some magical software posessed by the Macintosh.
So, if lots of people buy Macs, more viruses will be written for Macs. It's a vicious cycle!
:-)
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Date: 2006-05-05 08:51 pm (UTC)Not to mention, that Mac's don't have many of the endemic software flaws that Windows does.
It's true that they are less popular. But it is also endlessly harder to write viruses for them.
(Sooner look to your cell phones to get viruses...)