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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by ealloc on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @11:52PM (#3801228)
I believe "PC" has historically meant (or often been used to imply) "IBM PC compatible" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible) which Apple/Mac was not, until they switched to x86.
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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by vacri on Thursday April 05, 2012 @01:40AM (#3801466)
The problem is that viruses don't relate to the architecture - otherwise linux and *bsd (on the x86 platform) would have also been windows-like with their malware.

I know I'm playing semantic games here, but so is Apple with this slogan :)

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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by rbarooah on Thursday April 05, 2012 @05:39AM (#3801915)
In the context of Apple's "Mac vs PC" campaign, does anyone seriously have doubt about what they mean by a PC?
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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by vacri on Thursday April 05, 2012 @02:12PM (#3803810)
I know I'm playing semantic games here, but so is Apple with this slogan :)
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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by rbarooah on Thursday April 05, 2012 @04:24PM (#3804443)
Not really - in context it's perfectly clear what they meant.
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