They usually know TWO operating systems because the vast majority of the have come from using Windows, or still use Windows at work.”
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No, I understood it fine. What I’m saying is you don’t have to be some tekno-uber geek to **use** an OS. It’s “point and click”.
Now, if you’re looking for a even safer OS, you have to go to Linux. But even when I use it on my PC (my PCs are always dual-boot, Win & Linux) I used a premium anti-malware product.
With Windows and Linux - and Android (Linux-based) a user can get under the hood and they have to know what’s what. With Apple, you can’t even pop the hood open. You have to turn it over to Apple.
Unless ya got a couple of free years to tinker with it, maybe:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/17/apple-wants-to-kill-a-bill-that-could-make-it-easier-for-you-to-fix-your-iphone
Your claim that with Apple you can't even pop the hood open reveals your ignorance of the Mac and shows you seriously do not know what you are talking about, Louie.
Every Mac user is exactly two key strokes or one click away from a powerful command line Terminal with complete control of the underlying UNIX™ Operating System of OS X with which you can do anything you want.
Further, the Mac can run both your vaunted Windows and Linux, as well as OS X, UNIX™ and other Operating systems, either dual boot, or most often in virtual machines, and frequently simultaneously in sandboxed partitions. I have run NINE OSes simultaneously on my main Mac so I can bring them up when clients called for support so I can run what they are doing and step them through the same thing, mirroring what they need to do.
Your link on the New York "Fair Repair Act" mischaracterizes the reason Apple opposes such a repair bill. It's really about security issues. Allowing anyone access to some of the parts they demand access to allows anyone to compromise the ultimate security of the iOS system which is one of the primary economic values of iOS. Apple WILL not compromise that.
These third party repairers want to be able to reset the secure boot, which would allow stolen phones to be re-activated by people other than their owners. Currently only Apple or their certified repair stations can do such a thing, or have access to the Apple certified replacement parts which even can be reset.
Until Apple added these security parts, the iPhones were the single most stolen items in New York City and many other cities' crime reports, strong arm robberies, snatch and grabs, and muggings. Now, because they cannot be resold except for being broken down for just some of their parts to repair damaged iPhones, a very limited market, and not as a re-usable and very valuable black-market phone, they are not a desirable item for thieves to steal at all. The thieves have moved back to other items in their crimes.