It’s all human error in terms of getting viruses. I work at a University in the IT department and when viruses go around through emails, PEOPLE STILL CLICK ON THE ATTACHMENTS! They work in the technology department doing high-level MIS and they still don’t know what’s going on. So yeah, cayayofm, all the Mac needs is an attachement that when openened asks you for your admin password officiously.

People would do it.

Yeah, I agree. I never open anything I don’t know. But viruses do not come only from emails.

Frozonecold - Oct 31, 2005 08:01am

cayayofm - Oct 31, 2005 01:21am

Yeah, I agree. I never open anything I don’t know. But viruses do not come only from emails.

Before my pc died, my norton prevented my from opening all attachments, and any emails, that it deemed unsafe.

yeh, and also didn’t let u open the stuff u knew was safe, like pictures from another savvy user or whatnot.

ARRRRRG I have to say this ut if everyone had a mac life would be boring. Bill Gates would be a bum on the streets of new york. And the IT departments ov every buziness would have to fire all their people. Because the fact is that mas dont crash, they dont need i.t dpts to manage them and troubleshoot them.

Dosent mater to me, im kinda partial to cherry

nana - Jun 13, 2006 10:29am

another idea, if everyone in the world would use mac, the world would be the the same, we would still have president george bush

In other words, the world would still be depressing.

Hadley Stern - Sep 16, 2005 10:33am

I often wonder this. Would the world be more efficient and more creative if everyone used Macs or does it matter? Chime in with you answers and explanations.

Pardon me if it is frowned upon to comment in a months-old thread, but I was curious as to if you thought so, and if so why? Anyway, I wouldn’t really know about efficiency—that would probably depend on whether in your counterfactual everybody were and had been OS X using people for years (i.e. Windows or the alternative never existed), or if you just went about and switched everybody’s computer one morning. With the latter, it’d be very likely that productivity would collapse immediately thereafter, whilst folks try to figure out where the start menu went. That would probably be a very short-term effect as casual users would figure out how to get things done even through the change, but the Power Windows Users, and the like would probably continue to fight and struggle with the slight, but different ways of doing things. Thus it’d lead me to think there’d be a slight, but persistent drag lasting several months.

If it was the former, I’d truely think there would be little difference from now. OS X would have the same strengths that Windows has now, in app support and diversity; Apple would have to take enterprise considerations into account (likely being stronger backwards compat with older versions of OS X—Steve couldn’t just everybody to upgrade on new machines if they happen to order just after the new version of OS X is released). There will be a malware problem—not because OS X is as weak in security as Windows—but because hackers are determined. (Bank robbers haven’t stopped robbing banks after the invention of security cameras, silent alarms, armored trucks, etc. etc.)…

Now Creativitiy… that’s an odd one. I’d agree mostly with Beeb, except to say there might be a marginal increase of people using technology for creative arts. Imagine someone who’d love to make a comic strip, but doesn’t like to do it because it is difficult to make a good layout. It is hard to experiment when the only tools available is pencil and paper… However, that is something where a good computer program could help out. I would say it would induce someone on the fence into trying something out. But not at the numbers where marketers say everyone will become a producer. Simply because most people don’t want to.

Look at the internet phenomena of blogging. It’s probably the dead simplest thing to get into, and it has been hyped to death by everyone. The tools available to bloggers are pretty easy to use, and the cost to entry are virtually non-existent.  But still, only 7% of internet users have a blog. (I’m using a 2005 number from Pew-- it may have gone up, but I doubt it is much past 10% now.. If there is a more recent number, I’d love to know.) Most of us are consumers of content rather than producers of it. It’s much easier to consume than it is to participate (i.e. playing games) or produce (i.e. writing, creating...).

Beeblebrox - Jul 03, 2006 05:08am

nana - Jun 13, 2006 10:29am

another idea, if everyone in the world would use mac, the world would be the the same, we would still have president george bush

In other words, the world would still be depressing.

that’s what i meant. not any OS can make poverty history or get rid of depression.