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Re:Apple's First Public Demonstration of the Mac, Unseen Sin... by avar on Sunday January 26, 2014 @11:29AM (#7125600)
To play devil's advocate, do you think in an alternative universe where Apple products have built-in easy to use native support for jailbreaking with the push of a button that some large malware outbreak that only affects those devices jailbroken devices won't be blamed on them anyway?

Apple has other motivations to maintain their walled garden, but their goals of controlling the whole experience also extend to things like that. They want there to be no question that any Apple device is "safe", regardless of legitimate user configuration.

And as long as users at large aren't demanding general purpose computers who can really blame them?

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Re:Apple's First Public Demonstration of the Mac, Unseen Sin... by Shamanmuni on Sunday January 26, 2014 @12:31PM (#7125871)
Well, we have millions and millions of people using Windows, and in my experience when viruses and malware affect them, they usually blame themselves more than Microsoft. So, no, I don't think they'd put the blame in Apple.

And if that would have been the case, remember the Antennagate? First they told their customers to hold the phone differently, then they said it was a software problem, and finally they said the problem was the antenna, but that all smartphones had a similar problem (which was a lie). So, in that case I would have expected Steve Jobs' reality distortion field in full power blaming everyone except Apple.

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Re:Apple's First Public Demonstration of the Mac, Unseen Sin... by avar on Sunday January 26, 2014 @04:26PM (#7127011) 

    > they usually blame themselves more than Microsoft.
Did you not see how back with the Mac/PC ads Apple very much played on the whole aspect of Windows PCs being vulnerable to viruses? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Z386vXrt4

    > remember the Antennagate
I'm not saying Apple isn't capable of PR bullshit. I'm just saying that I can see why they don't see the benefit of allowing any kind of fragmentation on their platform.
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