Then, as I previous stated, your own assertion was disingenuous.
I am not responsible for your misinterpretation of my meaning.
I never said I used the mac as a 'router'...I used the word route, not router.
A mac is NOT a "router"... and I did not say it was one nor used as one... therefore, I don't know why you would make the assumption that I was using THAT definition of the word, rather than the common meaning of the word.
If I said I route all my email thru a yahoo account you would not assume I meant that I was using yahoo as a "router", would you?
And, actually, YES... run ALL internet traffic from a mac and avoid ALL Microsoft software on your mac ( non-MS browsers, and clients and nothing with MS "macro" capacity ) and you will find your chances of being infected drop by 90% or more. I know because I have done it. 90% of infected files that might come in will never get transferred to your PC because they will clearly be bogus.
( of course, you have to avoid using Excel and other regularly exploited MS crapware, too)
Then again, you should have been more specific in your statement.
Yes sir Mr Communication nazi, sir... I will do my best to accommodate your fundamental limitations on discourse...
Again, none of this was mentioned in your post. You merely threw out some general statements.
You mean, like you did in yours? Like, about viruses 20 years ago?
What you wrote was disgingenuous because you omitted a great deal of salient information, while implying that MACs are able to remove such material, merely by virtue of being MACs.
Bullshit. Don't tell me what I 'implied".... you are just making up stuff in your own mind and claiming I said it without having said it.
Excuse me if I paid you the compliment of assuming you understood the basics and could understand me in that context.
Macs don't
remove viruses and I never said they did. They are, however, impervious to viruses that afflict windows systems... therefore,
on your mac, you never have to worry about opening attachments nor websites that spuriously seize control of the shithole MS browser you're not using, and download shit without you seeing it or being able to stop it in time.
Better is rather subjective, so let's leave that aspect to personal choice?
Actually, better is quantifiable. In marketing its determined by customer satisfaction and brand loyalty data. People willingly pay more for Macs, and once having bought a Mac, overwhelmingly tend to come back to Apple for their future purchases, despite the price disincentive.
PC users show no particular loyalty to any manufacturer, demonstrating an inability to see any benefit from any one over the others in terms of quality, service or durability.
As far as recognition, Apple steadily wins design awards for both hardware and software design, and consistently is the innovator that other company's seek to copy.
By all rational measures, yes, Apple makes the better machine.
You appear to be taking my comments as an attack on MACs. They're not, I have no beef with MACs - I like them a great deal and have used them for years - but they are not the miracle machines that many of their evangelisers would tout them to be.
I do not take your comments as an attack on Macs... just as parsing and overly picayune.
I do not think they are miracle machines any more than I think a G35 is a miracle machine... That doesn't mean, however, that I am incapable of discerning that the G35 is a hellava better car that the Chevy Cobalt. More responsive, more fun, and better engineered.
They both serve much the same function... either would get me to work... but one is definitely gonna make the experience a lot more satisfying.
Well, firstly - comparing the situation almost 25 years ago with that today isn't really adding value.
Not meant to add value, just to point out that the statement YOU made was, perhaps not disingenous, but flat out incorrect.
Yes there were viruses, trojan horses and their like back when the Mac was relatively new.
Back then they spread among macs because the community was pretty small overall, and close knit; MUGs ( mac user groups) were all over and they tended to swap discs a lot.... ( what we used to call VD- venereal discs ) It was a heady time when most users would accept any old disc ( we called them 'slots' )
Sure, the rise of the net, and the indolence of Microsoft has created all kinds of NEW ways in which hackers can exploit software... And rendered macs so few and far between on the net as to make Mac viruses unable to effectively propagate.
Secondly - It's not bullshit. I said talking to not connected to. A stateless HTTP session vs a socket connection (for example) - which aren't the same things at all. To restate; you omitted all mention of firewalls and software neutering.
Again, sorry I assumed you were bright enough to figure out that when I say I don't let my PCs 'talk' to other PCs that you could figure out that they do not connect to the internet ( mostly other PCs) nor do they even connect directly with each other.
The only thing each PC can see is the storage server.
When I say they don't talk to other PCs I mean they don't talk to other PCs in any way.
PCs are like gremlins... don't get them wet or feed them after mdinight and they can be well mannered.
( Whoa, now...not that you should imagine that I am implying that water or food
actually factor into computer malware proliferation......)
No OS is invulnerable and If the market share % were reversed, I'd wager so would this argument. I'm not disputing the comparative infection rates merely the primary reasons for them.
My only disagreement is that I don't think you and I are in dispute on this point.
It would not even take a reversal... just the threshold percentage of macs in the grid to allow a chain reaction of infection.
But I will assert that Apple pays a LOT more attention to their software than does Microsoft. IN part, it is easier for Apple to make better software because they control the hardware on which it will run.
And I don't feel they make a better product cause JObs is a "visionary"... I think they make a better product because they HAVE to, or they would die.
In competing against the overwhelming monopoly of Windows and clone PCs, They can not possibly do so on price...
their only option is to do so in quality.