I wouldn't agree Apple is better at catching these things. The 2.0 version for iphone is an example. Apple is just different at these things. If Apple were better then there wouldn't be more security vulnerabilities fixed in OS X then Vista. For 2007 these results: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=758
How could Apple with supposed better research into it's code and it's vendors code, have so many more fixes for the same time period? And this isn't about security, just about Apple putting out OS X and then having to go back and fix some of it's code. As every vendor must. Under Tom's logic, these numbers clearly represent Apple as a slipshot organization with nothing better then monkeys coding their software. For someone who doesn't completely and utterly despise and loathe a paticular company, either Apple or MS, it's business, a complicated business that produces errors. Some on the list can't get past their simple hatred for certain companies, nothing is seen clearly for them. To most of us it's just a machine, we use whatever works, mac or windows or linux. Mike On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:07 PM, David K Watson <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm sorry, but bashing MS over this while praising Apple assumes that Apple >> finds all bugs in all third-party components, and I think I can pretty >> well >> assure you that it doesn't. >> > > I question this assertion. "Bashing MS over this while praising Apple" > does > not assume that Apple finds *all* such bugs, it only assumes that Apple is > somewhat better than MS at it. Isn't this something you yourself think is > correct > (see below)? Putting aside Apple, bashing MS over this assumes that MS > carelessly missed something that it really shouldn't have, something some > of us believe that others don't. > > You can say that Apple does a better job, and that is probably correct. >> But >> they aren't perfect, which makes me think that the MS-bashing over this is >> rather hypocritical. >> > > Again, why does Apple have to be "perfect"? The argument does not > depend on absolute conditions. If "Apple does a better job", why is it > hypocritical to want Microsoft to improve? > > Here, I think you are saying that Apple does a better job overall, but MS > shouldn't be criticized for this one mistake. Considered as a single > incident, > this again boils down to the question as to whether the mistake is one that > proper testing should have caught. Regardless of that, if you agree that > Apple is better at catching these bugs than MS then it should be easy to > understand that this particular bug feels like a legitimate part of a > larger > pattern (whether it actually is or not) and therefore triggers the > frustration > with MS that a lot of us have as a consequence of that larger pattern. > In other words, the MS criticism is still somewhat justified, just > misdirected. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
