[X4U] Apple dumping OSX....

[Eugene]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:44:43AM CST, keith_w <keith_w at dslextreme.com> wrote:
: 
: Eugene wrote:
: 
: [...]
: 
: >A meal is delicious because the ingredients are chosen for
: >freshness and quality, the cooking techniques are executed
: >perfectly, and the recipe itself is reliable and tested.
: >Covering a pile of cow manure with chocolate frosting does
: >not cover up the obvious fact.  Nor will a slick GUI cover
: >up for underlying systemic pervasive Windoze design flaws.
: 
: All that being true, and I firmly believe it is, why would Apple make 
: such a foray into melding the PC with the Mac?

It's cheaper to use PC hardware standards that are already
popular in the marketplace.  Less popular, more proprietary
hardware tends to cost more.  SCSI got axed in favor of IDE
and ATA and Firewire.  ADB ports got axed in favor of USB.
PowerPC got axed in favor of x86.

Also, recall that Apple invented the first PC.  It's thanks
to IBM's entrance into the business that tied the "PC" label
to DOZE/Windoze machines.

: Wouldn't making the Mac more and more PC-like open the door to also 
: making it more and more vulnerable to intrusion of viruses and worms and 
: the like?

The vast majority of malware takes advantage of software bugs.
Specifically, software bugs in Windoze.  Thanks to the security
model of OS X, Macs are still extremely safe.  What is a problem
are trojan horses: programs that trick the user into believing
that they are other (legitimate) apps.  But this is a form of
human deception, not a computer bug, so it exists everywhere.
If a guy walks up to you in a parking lot asking for directions
and then pulls out a gun, that person is a trojan horse who is
pretending to be a lost bystander but is actually a thief.


-- 
Eugene
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/