Apple’s Dangerous Move: “No Viruses On Macs.”

Surprise. I opened my email inbox this morning and found a message from Apple.

In essence, the message read, “PCs got 114,000 viruses last year. Macs got zero. Get a Mac.”

Whoa, is that an invitation to trouble, or what? Frankly, I am astounded at Apple’s hubris.

It’s one thing to soft pedal the lack of viruses and malware on the Mac, it’s something else again to hype the security Mac users enjoy with virus infection.

Is this an advertising campaign ploy based on.... (excerpted).

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