You know how it works. Someone decides to go after Apple in an online post, because putting Apple in the title is sure hit bait. So they create a situation to make it appear that Apple has done wrong, or is doing something that poses a danger to customers, or is vulnerable to danger. Or […]

There’s this conventional wisdom, unfounded, that Macs were never susceptible to malware. That was certainly not true in the early days. I remember, in 1990 or thereabouts, buying a commercial app from a local computer reseller. This was an app from a major publisher, supplied on a floppy disk, in a shrink-wrapped box. I installed […]

There’s a headline from one provocative blog this week suggesting that Apple has conceded “defeat” on the platform’s alleged resistance to malware. This comes in the wake of the reports earlier this year that over 600,000 Macs, over one percent of the estimated user base, was infected as a result of the Flashback outbreak. Therefore, […]

It made perfect sense on an iPhone and an iPad. You have mobile appliances that exemplify simplicity. You want reliability and security, so Apple devised a single place where you can buy all your apps. Yes, the move may have been somewhat controversial to some who want to have choices that Apple won’t allow for […]