It was always true, and it was a tangible benefit. Your arguments rely on it being considered "genuine" security or an effective defensive measure. It's not. That doesn't make it false, or not a benefit to end users.
> and it only became necessary for them to do it when it started to become an issue because people were getting owned.
What were people getting "owned" (ffs, I thought this was HN?) by in Snow Leopard. Care to provide a real world example, because I know you're full of shit. There was no well known dangerous trojan/malware/virus for SL that had any notable number of infections. The anti-malware in SL was a preventative measure.
> Don't even bother comparing it to Microsoft.
Watch me. I don't care about the reasons behind it, the long and short of it is Apple introduced an anti-malware system in OS X before it was a big issue and Microsoft pushed it until 2012, long after they've had countless brutally utilized exploits.
> If MS releases a good enough AV product the AV industry jumps up and down because MS just stole their lunch.
So MS sold out their customers to please their partners? Yeah keep trying to spin that one. And I'M the one drinking the kool-aid.
> Apple is not helping users to have a more secure experience.
Yes they are. FFS, you don't even understand what Gatekeeper is. FYI, it's not just the Mac App Store. Do some research before you continue to run your mouth.
> Do you really think that an App in the Mac App Store has no way of being malicious?
Of course not. Does it have a much, much, much smaller chance? Absolutely. Is it far and away the most effective measure against malware besides not installing anything? Also true.
> Have you not seen what can be done by an app in iOS?
An App Store app? No I haven't, care to demonstrate?
Dropbox, Skype, and Microsoft Office being distributed through App Store would be a hallelujah moment for me beyond all other hallelujah moments.
A staggering number of people I meet either can't get the job done, are too intimidated to start, download some malicious garbage, get waylaid by virus scareware, have no idea how to get the app into /Applications, get frustrated with Auto-Start naggers, freak out on Sparkle update dialogs, or never figure out how to pin the app to the dock.
Mac App Store is the answer to a lot of questions nobody "in the know" has had to ask in a decade or three.
It was always true, and it was a tangible benefit. Your arguments rely on it being considered "genuine" security or an effective defensive measure. It's not. That doesn't make it false, or not a benefit to end users.
> and it only became necessary for them to do it when it started to become an issue because people were getting owned.
What were people getting "owned" (ffs, I thought this was HN?) by in Snow Leopard. Care to provide a real world example, because I know you're full of shit. There was no well known dangerous trojan/malware/virus for SL that had any notable number of infections. The anti-malware in SL was a preventative measure.
> Don't even bother comparing it to Microsoft.
Watch me. I don't care about the reasons behind it, the long and short of it is Apple introduced an anti-malware system in OS X before it was a big issue and Microsoft pushed it until 2012, long after they've had countless brutally utilized exploits.
> If MS releases a good enough AV product the AV industry jumps up and down because MS just stole their lunch.
So MS sold out their customers to please their partners? Yeah keep trying to spin that one. And I'M the one drinking the kool-aid.
> Apple is not helping users to have a more secure experience.
Yes they are. FFS, you don't even understand what Gatekeeper is. FYI, it's not just the Mac App Store. Do some research before you continue to run your mouth.
> Do you really think that an App in the Mac App Store has no way of being malicious?
Of course not. Does it have a much, much, much smaller chance? Absolutely. Is it far and away the most effective measure against malware besides not installing anything? Also true.
> Have you not seen what can be done by an app in iOS?
An App Store app? No I haven't, care to demonstrate?