Say what? show me one ad or marketing piece that states anything close to your statement, 'Apple, the company that uses their marketing department to push forward the notion that Mac’s are immune to pretty much every system flaw found on the planet,...' I have never, ever seen anything approaching this from Apple. Statements like this only come from outside zealots, and it's only heard and remembered by ignorant PC users.
Way back in the days of system 9, Apple did sponsor a competition to have people try to hack their system, but no claims of it being unhackable were ever made.
Good point, John. While I, as a Mac users, have told friends I have never used virus protection and have never had a problem - and, after a few years of knowing me and that my computer has never failed, some of them even switched to Mac - I have never heard this put forth by Apple. I have actually wondered why they don't, and then realized that this sort of marketing could simply be seen as an invite to hackers. Smart of them not to have gone down that marketing route. Weird that this writer thinks they did.
I am in the process of switching from a pc to a mac and yes, the marketing people told me that virus protection was not needed. In fact, the salesman told me he had never, in all the years (2) that he had been selling macs at the Apple store, sold anti virus software for a mac.
samDec 2nd, 2008 - 04:28:41
LOLOL about time, TURN OF THE TIDE BABY
it was only a matter of time, i mean it just took a few years for the viruses to realize that mac is a good market!
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