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Yeah let us stop using Anti virus software on PC because it doesn’t stop every virus. It is never about elimination but minimization. Reality is that macOS and
by socialdemocrat 6y ago
Yeah let us stop using Anti virus software on PC because it doesn’t stop every virus. It is never about elimination but minimization. Reality is that macOS and iOS both have much smaller malware problem than competing platforms.
- swiley 6y agoI would disagree, GNU/Linux has less of a malware problem than OSX and at the end of the day they all run browsers which have their own issues. There's also a serious cost to the walled gardens. These things eliminate community maintained software which results in everything on your computer being controlled by a profit (often marketing) driven corporation. These always eventually die (taking your data with them) or abuse their special position of power.
- coldtea 6y ago>There's also a serious cost to the walled gardens. These things eliminate community maintained software So, what's Homebrew, MacPorts, or the tons of Mac-native foss UI apps?
- swiley 6y agoHomebrew at least is outside the walled garden. There's no way a source based package manager would ever make it onto an Apple run app store.
- zepto 6y agoCommunity maintained software seems to be dying without anything Apple is doing because people can’t afford to maintain it.