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Posted on 02/19/2011 10:41:51 PM PST by Swordmaker
Facts are meeting speculation. With Mac, iPad and iPhone sales on the up and up, this has been a fascinating week for Apple [AAPL] rumor. All the disparate claims seem headed into the final steps of their strange dance, unfolding like Lotus flowers, suggesting Apple is set to deliver the world's most efficient connected device-agnostic global mobile platform.
Look at the evidence: Apple's selling more Macs than ever -- Mac sales growth has outpaced the market for 19 consecutive quarters; analysts predict smartphone sales will climb 50 percent this year and the iPad-dominated tablet market is growing faster than that of any previous consumer electronics product.
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A report at All Things D confirms December 2010 saw Apple's 19th consecutive quarter of Mac marketshare growth, up 23.5 percent for the month. The PC industry saw overall growth of 3.4 percent that month.
All Things D confirms Apple's consumer market success is transforming its non-traditional markets: business market shipments of Macs grew 65.4 percent in the period (against a 9.7 percent industry average). Government Mac sales were stratospheric -- up 549.5 percent.
What's driving this? The OS X, iOS, iPad, iPhone and iPod halo, of course. And also Microsoft's decade-long failure to mount anything approaching an effective market strategy to keep its customers loyal. Perhaps this is why Apple has repeatedly claimed 50 percent of Mac sales in its retail outlets are to people "new to the platform".
As I've reported previously, the iPad has won the enterprise, and now business is also turning to Mac. The iPad has been deployed or piloted in 80 percent of the Fortune 100 companies.
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Wait, wut?
One of my Windows computers at work just had another filthy malware infestation, despite being behind a firewall and anti-virus protocol administered by a very professional IT department. Yet again, for perhaps the fourth time, it had to be wiped and restored from backups, taking the machine down for half the day.
The IT guys are laughing less and less as I bitch to them about how this never happens to an OS X machine, even one exposed to the naked Internet, and I have started to see some of them carrying dual-boot MacBooks. We have been changing over to a Citrix server to host a lot of our applications, and no longer have any real need for Windows on the desktop.
A tipping point is coming. The time is not far off, perhaps two to four years, when business as a whole will decide that they are through with Microsoft’s insecure, costly crapware. For those of us who remembered the perennially “beleaguered” Apple of 1998 or so, this is sweet indeed.
As a professional IT guy, who also happens to use both Macs by choice and Win PCs by necessity, let me comment.
"Never" is a big word.
While there are still no true autonomous viruses in the wild that attack Macs successfully, there is plenty of human-engineered malware for Macs, stuff of the form "Please approve installation of this (viral) application", and the user does so. The weakest link in any security system is the human operator.
As a long-time Unix-head (going on 30 years), I have a lot of faith in the security and robustness of the BSD that is the foundation of OS-X.
But human operators will always be there to override that security and approve installation of malware. It's just the way it is.
So please be careful about saying "Never".
BTW, dual-boot MacBooks rock. :)
If you had any idea how many viruses and malware modules were on your Mac without your knowledge, you wouldn’t be gloating so hard.
Mac has no immune system. Zero. Every single virus to infect Mac OS X encounters zero resistance.
Answer me this: Have you ever installed any software onto your Mac?
If you answered yes, you have a virus. Congratulations. Gloat away over your perceived superiority over owning a Mac, while your identity gets stolen by Chinese hackers and you spend the wee hours of the morn scouring in futility for a Mac-based antivirus program to protect you.
You won’t get a flame from me. I have an ipad...and and a touch.
The pad is the touch for seniors. lol
I absolutely love it!
“Answer me this: Have you ever installed any software onto your Mac?
If you answered yes, you have a virus.”
I’ve installed plenty, and nope - no problems.
That’s because all of the software is either commercial, or from trusted sources like the Mozilla Foundation.
BTW, Apple is providing some anti-malware software along with the system these days. IF malware begins to be more of a problem, you’ll surely hear about it, and Apple will likely do more. I’m sure they’ll take the approach Microsoft _finally_ adopted, and provide the necessary software themselves.
Also BTW, if your theory was correct, Linux would be a hotbed of malware. Wrong again.
LOL. I hope that’s a joke. If Apple needs to mark the ports with pretty little pictures that tells you something about their customers (or what they think about their customers).
Just like your typical liberal, Steve Jobs thinks everybody who isn’t him is an idiot.
Next!
Why would it be a joke. In 1084, I bought one of these, took it home, and connected the pictures. I loaded MacDraft, a third party CAD program, and half hour later printed a floor plan with my new dot matrix 24-pin.
It tells more about jerks that make stupid comments! Typical... (BTW, the other companies COPYed the Mac icons and still do!)
1984
Pure unadulterated BS! Name them, Omedalus! NAME THOSE MAC VIRUSES! You can't because there are none!
You obviously don’t have a long history with computers. In the mid 80s, computing was just getting started and most users didn’t have a clue about most things. I remember when I got a new hard drive that was 40 MB - it was so large compared to what I had been using that I felt compelled to partition it. Besides, if you look at the ports on a lot of current computers, you will see similar “pictures”.
Yep. Apple platforms will become prime targets for hackers instead of Windows based machines.......
I have a lot of faith in the security and robustness of the BSD that is the foundation of OS-X.The IT guys are laughing less and less as I bitch to them about how this never happens to an OS X machine, even one exposed to the naked Internet, and I have started to see some of them carrying dual-boot MacBooks.
But human operators will always be there to override that security and approve installation of malware. It's just the way it is.
So please be careful about saying "Never".
After all, Chernobyl wouldn't have melted down without egregious operator error.
Yep. Apple platforms will become prime targets for hackers instead of Windows based machines.......A tipping point is coming.
Probably. Doesn't mean they'll be able to hit that target . . .Macs stopped being "obscure" quite a while ago.
It says nothing about Apple's customers other than the fact that many computer buyers (of any brand or flavor) don't live in the US and don't speak English. "Pretty little pictures" that convey warnings or information abound in all aspects of our life. Apple didn't invent the concept, they just use it, as do many other companies. It saves on manufacturing costs, and improves the bottom line.
Any platform that is designed by man can be defeated by man.
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