Get a life. Your life and health are more important than your job. If they work hard, meet deadlines and live it their all when they are work, that is all that is needed. This is especially true if it is not their work that causes the emergencies in the first place.

Maybe you need to start taking your work more seriously so that you don't have to face "emergencies" so often.

Naive people might think of it is a utopia but I see it as a socialist dystopia similar to brave new world.

Over my dead body. I have refused to carry a company blackberry. If there is an emergency, my manager can call me on my personal iPhone or email me at home.

The closest thing to a corporate chain is a company laptop that I sometimes take home and on business trips.

Yes, in fact, the majority of those apps mentioned are free from Apple with iOS 7 and the rest are relatively cheap from companies like Adobe, Pinnacle and Autodesk.

Yes, they are. There are the iWorks apps and the iLife apps which are available with iOS 7. Then there are various tools from Adobe, Pinnacle and Autodesk.

The iPod Touch? Yes, it has all of those applications because it runs iOS and iOS 7 comes with a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation creator, a photo editor, video editor and music composition program. Also, various third party iOS apps work on the iPod touch. This article is talking about the iPod touch, iPad and iPhone all of which run iOS.

Does the Xbox have a word processor? A spreadsheet? A presentation creator? Does it have any photo manipulation apps or drawing programs with layers and filters? Are there any movie editors, effects composition apps? Does it have any music creation software available for it?

How many of those samsung phones "shipped" Q3 actually were sold into consumers hands? How many of those Samsung devices "shipped" in Quarter 1 and 2 are in consumers hands right now? We really don't know how many were activated and how many are still in use rather than having been replaced by another device that might or might not be a Samsung. When numbers are reported for Apple devices, those are generally accepted as "sold" into consumers hands and the vast majority of them remain in the hands of those consumers through out at least a year.

Are you an intelligent person? Are you responsible? If you act responsibly, the vectors for attack are few and far between. Take personal responsibility for your security. Think before you click.

I spend the majority of my time during weekdays on windows because that is the platform of choice at my employer. There have been stories of patches from Microsoft breaking their "own" software so at my workplace, we tend to be quite conservative when it comes to patches applied in our production environment and we are still using Windows 7 on our desktops and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Windows 8.x is a disaster.

But you go ahead and continue with your irrational jumping to conclusions. For the same reason that my company does not upgrade to Windows 8 desktops, It does not make sense to upgrade to Mavericks in a company environment until you have checked for compatibility with all of the software used in your daily workflow. It might make sense to use a test machine to vet Mavericks before committing to an upgrade and as long as you are careful where you surf at work, you should be fine being behind patches or versions for a while.

Remember that no patches can protect you from zero day exploits so common sense is the only defence you have in that case. Don't be an idiot surfing to unknown sites when at work.

And the problem is? Apple is neither responsible or capable of testing all possible combinations of software and hardware. Do you expect them to support third party software directly? You make the choice to use a particular piece of software that does not offer an upgrade. In the meantime, you can simply use some common sense and avoid the most common potential vectors. If you are talking about a "work" machine then you should be using for "work" anyway and not surfing other sites.

I think you are a bit confused. Free will cannot be free will without the possibility of choosing the wrong decision. What is it with you people? You complain when you feel that other people are infringing on your freedoms but then you complain that god gives you the ability to make mistakes. Sure, god could have created man with no free will but what would be the point? We are not androids. We are living beings who are not god so we are capable of making the wrong choice.

You seem to want contradictory things. If god is like a parent to his children (humanity), wouldn't you expect the parent to allow his children to grow and have the opportunity to make the right choices eventually?

So you want to have a dictatorial god that forces everyone to do everything his way? Is that what you actually want? It is awfully easy to sidestep personal responsibility and morality if you instead decide to blame god for everything bad that men do.