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When enough people switch then you can start making money off the crap that is targeted to a Mac. It ain’t special.

I am going to repeat my question from earlier in the thread. When will there be enough people who have switched, 99.9% of whom go bare naked without any anti-malware software on their Macs, before we start getting those hackers writing the malware for the 110 million vulnerable Macs out there in the wild? When? We've been told what you just told me for 18 years and it hasn't happened yet and there have been hackers who have tried to write self-replicating, self-transmitting, self-installing malware for Macs during that time and every single one of them has failed miserably to be successful. So, exactly how many will it takes before all these generally more wealthy, more vulnerable exposed Mac users become targets of these crooked hackers? When? How many will it take?

30% of the computers in California right now are Macs.

We keep asking and all we get from you smug prognosticators, who don't use a Mac and have never tried to write malware for it, and who always claim the "Mac ain't special", is crickets. So step up and explain when will it become attractive for these miscreants? We are getting tired of both waiting and your predictions.

When will there be enough people who have switched, 99.9% of whom go bare naked without any anti-malware software on their Macs, before we start getting those hackers writing the malware for the 110 million vulnerable Macs out there in the wild?

I am not in this forum to answer an overtly stupid shill-for-Mac question. There are roughly 1.5 billion users of Windows worldwide. There is as much justification to hack a Mac as there is to answer your question: Mac is so zero as to reach singularity.

I was on the net when there where only 8 million between the US and Canada. I was a charter member of many computer forums and have focused on race-horse rigs while observing Apple use its boat anchor hardware and proprietary software to con customers up to about the #4 computer maker in 1996. Since then it became a boutique computer business whose best claim was that their crap didn't crash.

Now they want to go low end attempting to get their special sauce software on as many unsuspecting numbnut's computers as possible. Capitalism baby! I'm all for it.

To be trendy and polite, Apple has always run a closed ecosystem. They have been financially successful. The big question will be whether big corporations will let the vampire into its network.