On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm surprised I hear multiple people here still espouse the 'mac's market > share is too small' rhetoric. > > Take a moment to think about it. > > Now let's disregard it as pure bullpuckey. > > First of all, in 2010, there are massive numbers of macs. It's well worth > doing. > Macs have about 6% market share world wide, I fail to see why it would be worth it if instead, I can dedicate some time targetting 94% of PC users (especially since a larger portion of these 94% is probably more careless about security than Mac's 6%). So, no, still not a convincing argument. > Then add the notion that mac users tend not to be security oblivious, at > least in theory (that's the whole -POINT- of Steve's argument, right? That > as a mac user you don't have to worry?) as well as the street cred / novelty > value / newsworthiness of creating a mac worm and I'm flabbergasted anyone > would claim windows is down in this comparison just because its popular. > You just undermined your own argument by saying (and I agree) that average Mac users are usually more security savvy than average Windows users. If you're in it to get hacking cred, you will get a lot more of that by doing something big than doing something hard. If you're in it for the money, Windows is still the obvious choice. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
