Opinion: Is Apple Big Brother or a practitioner of safer com
Source: Kenneth Van Wyk
I'm just going to come right out and say it: Mac and iPhone users are safer than Windows and Android users. There it is.
I can sense a tsunami of comments flooding in like never before, so allow me to explain what I mean.
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There is vastly less malware (viruses, worms, botnets, etc.) on OS X and iOS than there is on Windows and, more recently, Android. We all acknowledge this. But many of you are saying that that doesn't mean that Apple's operating systems are more secure than Windows or Android. True. I didn't say they're more secure; I said they're safer.
What else do you have to knock down that statement? Ah, yes, there's less malware on OS X than on Windows because there are fewer Mac users than Windows users -- the bad guys simply write their heinous ware for the larger market. To which I say: That may be at least partially true in the case of OS X vs. Windows, but it flies in the face of reason when it comes to iOS vs. Android.
So now you're saying that the Android Markets are "free" and "open" vs. Apple's heavy-handed curation of its App Store. And now we're getting to an interesting discussion.
Apple users are safer for many reasons. We can talk about size of the Mac population vs. the Windows population, but I firmly believe the answer is far more complex than that (though I have no doubt that population size plays a role).
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