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What would cause security to become such a huge selling point for the broader market, though, which mostly stuck with Windows back in the bad ol' days?
by glhaynes 16y ago
What would cause security to become such a huge selling point for the broader market, though, which mostly stuck with Windows back in the bad ol' days?
- stcredzero 16y agoWasn't Apple using security as a OS X selling point for awhile? It's all a part of the "it just works" selling point. Security for most computer platforms is a pain in the 4ss. One of the few where it's not: Google Chrome. I have to say that my Macbook and iPad do a pretty good job of "it just works." That's a far cry from my dad's Thinkpad, where Firefox and IE both have like 7 toolbars. A lot of suboptimal user behavior is like those dogs in the cages with electrified floors. Everything/everywhere sucks, so you just lie down on it and accept the suck as normal. (The dogs in the experiment were eventually just lying down on the electrified floor.) Basically, if you're to have a hope of delivering the highest levels of "it just works" then you're going to have to build some security infrastructure to support it.