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Domicinator said: ... D) When OSX has more market share, or maybe I should say IF it ever gains a significant market share, it will become victim to just as many viruses and spyware as Windows. People who buy Macs because they don't get viruses are falling for Apple's marketing rather than thinking things through--it's not that OSX can't get viruses. OSX doesn't get viruses YET. ...
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I want to correct this: if OS-X ever gains a significant market share, it will surely become target of much more malware. The difference being that a good security infrastructure enables a piece of software to be robust against attacks, and not automatically a victim. Or when it comes to the worst, it ensures that the damage malware can cause is limited.
Example: servers based on LAMP infrastructure and in particular the Apache webserver were victims of much less serious exploits than Microsoft's IIS server, though being much more widely employed worldwide.
That is not to say that I have blind faith in OS-X security, mind you. Hackers meetings centered on security demonstrated that it is not at all that impervious. But on the other hand serious faults were pointed out by experts in Windows 7 at beta-time that were never corrected, and that might open a privilege escalation.
Bottom line: I refuse to accept "marketshare brings vulnerability", I only accept that marketshare brings exposition. Software quality can de-couple the two, and we should push, as consumers, for higher quality.
