...nothing!

What Happened?

Was it the fact that Android was built on Linux so they became complacent with the OS’s security policies?

Was it that they were so focused on taking the opposite approach to Apple’s curated store and seeming over-arching control that they went too far the other way?

Where did Google go so wrong? Have they gone wrong?

What will it take for them to finally do something about it because, up until now, they've barely paid lip service to the problem with their platform.

No one can say that iOS doesn’t have this problem because of a "security through obscurity" excuse as used for Mac OS when compared to Windows. iOS as a platform is just as large as Android when you count iPads and iPod touches along with iPhones.

Will Google finally break down and lock down their OS so that only curated apps can be installed? Can they after all this time?

Will they correct their broken permissions system that puts application permissions in the hands of the app developer rather than in the hands of the user where it belongs.

Trying to be the Joseph McCarthy of the 21st century.

Very good point, in fact, from the miniusa.com web site legal page,

"the MINI name, MINI COOPER, MINI COOPER S and logos are registered trademarks."

I wonder if it is because they registered the name 'MINI' itself as opposed to using the word mini as a descriptive element of the name as in "COOPER MINI."

True, but Apple also makes free software and they also make open source software so I guess it all balances out in the end.

There actually is a fair way to measure. That is to count actual exploits and in this regard MS is way ahead and not in the good way.

I've read many times where "security experts" like to use vulnerabilities discovered as a metric in an effort to show how Apple's Mac OS is just as vulnerable as MS Windows but the fact is that is the wrong approach. The problem is that with modern operating systems vulnerabilities need to be strung together in a very particular order before an exploit can be declared and, at present, it seems that there has been more success stringing them together for Windows than OS X.

As for disclosing only what you've fixed, well duh! Only a totally incompetent company would disclose what they haven't fixed yet.

He did not say an "illiterate person" he said a "computer illiterate" as in "illiterate" in the use of "computers." There is a big difference.

The most intelligent person in the world can be "computer illiterate" if he's never used a computer in his life.

Yes, they think it's better to hand over 50%, or more, selling through retail. I think you'll find that future versions of Office for the Mac will be App Store apps going forward.

Actually, Office has had a mechanism to notify users of available updates since at least Office 2004 which was the last version of Office I used. Personally I find iWork for the Mac a much better office suite than MS Office. MS Office may be slightly more powerful in some of it's capabilities but it is archaic.

BEST RETORT EVAR!

If you ever visited Canada in the winter you’d know that snow IS an weapon of mass destruction.

I don't even think he understands the significance of your "Woosh!" comment. I think you should spell it out for him before his head explodes.

The point was that there is a huge third-party market of add-ons for iOS devices that dwarfs the practically non-existent one for Android devices. Each platform has its strengths.

And he spit in the peanut bowl.

No, you are a Microsoft IT admin in a library who knows nothing about Macs.

What do you think Mac OS X Server does?

Sigh, I was wondering how long it would take for this thread to deteriorate to this. It didn't take long at all.