In Reply to: RE: Why are you cherry picking old data ? posted by Dave_K on October 22, 2016 at 10:30:05:
It seemed that your point was to disparage Apple with cherry picked data. Or perhaps you simply linked to an article that had old data w/o looking at the 2016 stats.
In any case, old data is not an indicator of current reality. One thing that wasn't mentioned and not available on the CVE site is that Apple has the highest adoption rate among their user base for updating to new OS and application releases.... which translates to fewer open vulnerabilities. This is true with Android vs iOS new release adoption as well as Windows vs Mac OS X.
My observation based on personal experience, along with what I hear from several co-workers, is that we have had significantly fewer virus and malware issues since switching from Windows to Mac OS X. The sample size is small but our group of about 35 individuals all switched from Windows to Mac at the same time about 7 years ago. We were all issued company supplied Macs.
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- RE: Why are you cherry picking old data ? - AbeCollins 11:01:22 10/22/16 (1)
- RE: Why are you cherry picking old data ? - Dave_K 11:27:34 10/22/16 (0)