Posts by cashxx 32 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Feb 2012
How do you know it was relatively untested? It's been in testing for years before it became public knowledge and has had several beta's for the public to test and is why we haven't hear many complaints! Hopefully the macOS conversion will be as smooth! Your loss for being closed minded and not wanting anything Apple!
Windows will be a subscription service in another couple of years is what I think is going on! Get everyone on board with a free upgrade and keep releasing updates and then turn it into online upgrades then start charging a monthly/yearly fee.
That will be the day I stop building PC's and remove them from my house and only use Macs!
I'd rather have that sensation than Google scanning through all my documents and selling me as their B!tch to the highest bidder feeling! And not feeling truly safe at all with most of the malware/viruses being pointed at Android and lack of updates and Google leaving me being out in the cold in the 60% of users it refuses to update for so they are secure! So Android truly is open as in WIDE open!!
OS X is various versions of OS X lumped into one while Windows is separate! Since IE is part of the OS IE should then be included with Windows OS if they want to play that game. Separate OS X or combine Windows numbers to equal things out! Same goes for Linux and iOS!!
A few years ago when Windows got slammed by a virus Google made the switch to the Mac platform. I forget what virus it was, but in order to use Linux or Windows you have to make a good claim on why you must use those. Mac is about the only choice at Google to my understanding unless you make your case!
I don't see what the big deal was.....I just used another browser until it got fixed. They said the update was near and figured it would be this week. Whoopee!!
If they would have rushed out a fix and screwed something up then everyone would have been complaining about that! It was put in a current about to be released update and tested and released! That simple!
Apple is going after all servers that is talking to this malware and Dr. Webs is one of them. Its not the only server being gone after.
As far as Apple trying to sweep it under the rug! Not so! They are making a detect remove utility and is surprised by this like everyone else. I still don't believe it, I think Dr Web is behind the whole mess. That company is in russia where most malware comes from and was the only one with the data at first. Seems suspicious to me!
Apple is learning as they go and are still learning about the problem and investigating the issue. They haven't been attacked like Windows OS has over the years so they are not professionals at malware/virus protection. Grow up and learn about the company! Want a company to hate go look at Google, Amazon, Samsung, Microsoft.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5244
iArrogance......I have over 200 macs under me and none have been infected by this bug. Its not arrogance its standing behind a product you believe in and a company that supports its users and doesn't sell you like Google does.
Go to Dell and price a comparable laptop meaning a Precision laptop and spec them out the same and see the prices then. All the laptops at $499+ all look good on paper.
Look at the ultrabooks coming out now to compete with the Macbook Air......they are having a hard time getting the price under $1000 because of quality components and not junk.
And as always with Apple they usually only update once a year, maybe twice with the laptops, but its usually best to wait for the next update to get the latest and greatest. Sometimes Dell/others get the products out quicker that have been updated over the year, but usually Apple will update pretty quick on a new release of hardware like the upcoming ivy bridge.
Plus with a Mac you have less problems with hardware in my experience over 11 years, plus you can run OS X, Windows, Linux, etc. I only run OS X, its nice not having to worry about spyware, etc and things always just work usually.
Every time I turn my Windows 7 PC on I am troubleshooting or updating or wasting time in one way or another.
This article is flawed in so many ways........Apple isn't hurting.....heck today it was announced that the ATF is dropping blackberries for iPhones. The iPhone had the most sales over the holiday quarter and the last few months iPhone is going up as Android is evening out and going the other way.
But in the long long run I think its Microsoft all over again....we are seeing Android all over being used on junk up to good products and it will have the most marketshare just like Windows and Apple with have its own little niche market just like the Mac. There are so many junk Android phones out there and too much confusion and choices its a mess. Apple has a nice simple way of doing things and having its niche market is fine with me! Apple makes the best hardware and software and it will continue.
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