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

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.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	2015-10-13 18:29 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<d850svFo6scU10@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2015-10-13, GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> wrote:
> On 10/12/15 11:19, Jolly Roger 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.
>>
>> This "No one is an expert that buys an PC from Apple" line is pure
>> bullshit any way you look at it.
>
> Again, you misunderstood my comment. 

Your comment (quoted above) was:

No one is an expert that buys an PC from Apple.

> There is no such thing as an "Expert".  These people are experienced
> in their niche field, but are never experts.  Even medical doctors are
> not experts, otherwise they'd be able to cure everybody.  Some medical
> doctors are better at it than others.

If that's all you meant, you could have said that. Instead, you singled
out Apple computers as if that was somehow relevant to your point.

-- 
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JR

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Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-10-11 22:15 -0500
  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-11 21:16 -0700
    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
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-12 10:39 -0700
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-13 12:02 -0600
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-13 18:29 +0000
          Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-13 20:01 +0000
            Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-13 16:16 -0600
              Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-14 00:08 +0000
          Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-13 16:15 -0600
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-13 18:36 +0000
          Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-13 20:01 +0000
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              Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-14 00:08 +0000
          Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-13 16:17 -0600
            Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-13 22:20 +0000
              Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-14 18:19 -0600
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    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-10-11 23:52 -0500
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-12 05:18 +0000
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-10-12 00:40 -0500
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                Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-10-12 05:38 -0500
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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 16:43 +0000
                Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-10-12 13:19 -0500
                Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-12 18:29 +0000
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