Also I think Apple will need less of a market share to attract pop-ups and possible scams, because OS X attracts two types of people for the most part. Music people or very basic users who have money. If a person can target 90% of the market but not everyone there has a lot of money it doesn’t do them as much good. However Apple is A LOT more expensive than PC, which means that other 10% or whatever it is has more money to take. Why target China’s population that has little money? When you can target let’s say the UK which has much more money per person?

Watch out Apple users you aren’t invincible, just scarce.

1. Apple “closes off” its platform, which means that those software developers out there that want to create programs for the Mac have to go through a LOT in order to do so. With Windows, there are standards, but the standards don’t always have to be adhered to.

2. Vista’s doom was brought about by a lot of hardware vendors not having drivers ready when Vista was released. Microsoft was indirectly responsible for this by changing the hardware specs a few months prior Vista’s launch. When you switch to Vista and your sound and video cards don’t work, that’s a biiiiig problem.

3. “Stability” is inversely proportional to “freedom.” If I locked my kids in a closet, tied them up and put gags in their mouths, someone could label my kids as being “well behaved” and “stable” since they’re not making any noise or causing trouble. Conversely, if I take my kids to a playground full of other kids with jungle gyms to climb and swings to play on, then the “stable” label is replaced by “running” and “doing what they are supposed to be doing,” which is having fun.

(Boy, I hope this comparison doesn’t make me look creepy)

So, to sum up, Apple = closet, Windows PC = playground.

As for Linux, that’s just a big field in the middle of nowhere that allows you to build whatever you want ;)