Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.freeware, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store
Date	2015-10-12 10:39 -0700
Message-ID	<D2413E72.60166%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
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On 10/12/15, 10:19 AM, in article d828dcF2tp9U2@mid.individual.net, "Jolly
Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> On 2015-10-12, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>> On 10/11/15, 8:15 PM, in article mvf8l0$klq$1@news.albasani.net, "Nobody"
>> <nobody@invalid.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10/7/2015 2:31 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>> On 2015-10-07, GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> No one is an expert that buys an PC from Apple.
>>>> 
>>>> That's a big, fat lie.
>>>> 
>>>> Many skilled professionals and experts use Macs.  Go to any technical
>>>> conference and look at the audience and presenters and they'll be using
>>>> Macs. All of the staff at tech companies [...]
>>> 
>>> I've spent my whole working life at tech companies, and they all share
>>> one thing in common: no Macs anywhere, not in the staff, not in the
>>> audience, not with the customers, and not with the executives running them.
>> 
>> I bet you never name any of these companies. I worked for Intuit and had
>> both a Mac and a PC on my desk.
>> 
>> <http://goo.gl/BJGke4> [Infoworld]
>>     -----
>>     Security, manageability, and lower TCO are why Macs should
>>     comprise 10 to 25 percent of your work PCs
>>     -----
>> 
>> <http://goo.gl/F1EkBf> [ZDNet]
>>     -----
>>     Macs in the enterprise: From Apple's consumer roots to a valued
>>     business machine
>>     New IT features make managing multiple Macs in the enterprise
>>     a breeze. These standout features also underlie the increased
>>     usage of Apple computers in business.
>>     -----
> 
> I've worked in several semiconductor manufacturers, technical hardware
> and software makers, and all of them had people using Macs, some more
> than others. Even Microsoft employees use Macs. And every technical
> conference I have been to in the past decade shows plenty of smart
> people using Macs both in the audience and on stage.

Right. He is just trolling with nonsense claims he has been pushing for
years.

> This "No one is an expert that buys an PC from Apple" line is pure
> bullshit any way you look at it.



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    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-12 17:19 +0000
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