WSJ’s Mossberg: Tired of Viruses, Get a Mac
A Mossbery article I didn’t see coming: if you’re tired of viruses, he says, look into a Mac.
I’ve certainly enjoyed the fact that owning a computer with less than 5% market share means most viruses won’t affect me. But reading this makes me wonder if Mac OS X really is more secure.
Another thought crosses my mind: how can Apple, with far less of an R&D budget than Microsoft, build a stronger operating system (if the head of Symantec’s Mac products group is to be believed)? After all, Apple, with much less of a budget for R&D, builds its own hardware, software, and peripherals (iPod), plus runs retail stores across the country. How? By using UNIX at its core, it gets to tap the collective R&D investments of the UNIX and open source communities, for starters.