Mac virii are now becoming more commonplace. The FlashBack virus has already infected 550,000 systems and iPads and still increasing. It's funny because unlike a PC, all people can do is turn their brick'ed iPads in to the store for a replacement. This expensive gesture is not dooming, however. Apple can reformat the SSD hard-drives at a low-level and reinstall them in other units later. This process, however, takes time and manpower a bit, and therefore money. It's only a matter of time that Apple is inundated with thousands upon thousands of virii. Steve is probably happy he died before this happened. I suspect he predicted its inevitability, as it'll transcribe onto iPhones as well. He's probably happy his image wasn't tarnished.
To my amusement, the majority of Mac virii are Java-based, so you could remove the Java capability of Macs to protect yourself, sort-of. For a while.
Bye-bye Apple.
Users will get used to this Mac 1 and Mac 2 all-to familiar image and dead screen. When I used Macs back in the 80s and 90s, I remember it well.
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