2010
08.12
08.12
Just another ranting maniac
Back to my anti-apple campaign, inspired by a story from CNET
Snow Leopard was released at the end of August 2009, but now it’s mid-October and Apple is admitting to colossal data issue – using a guest account erases the personal data in your main account. Wow. That’s just awesome Apple.
They sent out a patch 2 weeks after the release, but that still didn’t seem to fix that glaringly colossal error. Admittedly, Microsoft is dealing with data loss issues regarding the Sidekick, but that’s a more of a cloud computing issue, and less of a completely intrusive it wiped my hard drive issue. But who’s the big bad monster in the press?
We also have some other issues with Snow Leapord from Gizmodo
Now I’ll admit, this is as soon as the release happened, and a little old, but KEYNOTE (Apple’s version of MS PowerPoint)? McAfee and Norton ANTI-VIRUS? Really?
Which brings me to the last article I dug up from Gadget Lab
With a 10% (I don’t believe that number) market share and climbing (I do believe that), Apple creates an OS that is barely more secure than Windows XP SP2.
One thing that Snow Leopard did adapt, which Windows has had since XP SP2, is DEP (data execution prevention). With DEP, buffer overflow attacks are much harder to execute. (Link)
Now, the only reason it is “safer” is because hackers can’t be bothered with a system that is not used in banks or by major corporations. I am willing to bet that we will see many more attacks on Macs in the near future simply because there will be a hacker or 2 (or 200) that are simply FED UP with the glorification of a substandard operating system.
I am somewhat looking forward to the day where Mac has a 30 or 40% market share, simply to watch the white robed cultist Mac-ites shed some tears of frustration.