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Technically, with Google Android getting such the world-wide market bigger, percentage-wide, than Apple, the same could be said of Google. They're just as "vunlerable" of virus / security attacks due to their popularity as is Apple; if not, more, because they have a larger user-base.
In 1985 I started using a Mac 512ke at my employer.
In 1986 I bought a Mac Plus (1MB of RAM, Yeah Baby!) and printer for $3,200. (Side Bar: the finance company went under 3 weeks later and I didn't pay a dime!).
So I figure the only way to keep gettin' free Macs was to work for the source, Apple.
I started working for Apple's Human Interface Group (HIG) in the late 1980's.
Since June, 1986, I've never had a virus or security issue with an Apple and/or Mac product.
Only 1 virus hit a series of Macs at a company that I (years) later became an employee at. Other than that, I know of no mass virus/security threat within all my 27+ years of Mac use within my many, many contact spheres.
Yet, 'tis factual, hackers prefer and seek larger audiences to exploit, which is where both Google and Apple are now at.
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And, for the record, yes, I do use anti-virus software; since last June.
Why? Cuz my kids are now using the computers!
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Except for the current SSL vulnerability created by them fixing the zero-day on iOS but not OS X.
That's a documented vulnerability to all SSL traffic with live exploits that Apple, in their wisdom, publicized to the world.
See: The Guardian[^].
They previously drew criticism for failing to release security updates that had been applied to BSD UNIX code bases from which it drew sources - even though that exposed vulnerabilities that had been fixed and documented in those communities. I believe they have failed to learn from the experience judging by the recent news.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Apple, Linux & Co. never were more secure than Windows in terms of exploitable defects. But when you are a hacker: what would you try - hack a single Linux box with xy distro version 2.5, a few Macs or several thousands Windows PCs? When we start talking about vulnerability of Apple's products now, it just means that they have now a market share for becoming interesting targets to hackers. That's it: they grew beyond the threshold of being ignored.
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I'd say there was a little window, before XP SP2, when OS X was inherently more secure than Windows. Since then I agree entirely.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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There's some surprise news out of Barcelona today: BlackBerry CEO John Chen told CNBC that he'd be willing to sell the company's BBM chat service... for the right price. "If somebody comes to me with $19 billion I would definitely sell it," he told an interviewer on air. "I mean, I would recommend to the board to take it." I think there's just one little flaw with his plan
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Ha! With a dr evil pinky to the side of the mouth move.
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Yeah, and I'd love to sell my farts for $19 Billion, too.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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With some decent methane content, I'd say you probably have a better chance at $19bill 
TTFN - Kent
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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not unless he throws in all of BlackBerry's government contracts gratis
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There is that.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Christopher Shields wrote: not unless he throws in all of BlackBerry's government contracts gratis
You need something to wipe your ass on just in case the $19 billion spent on the farts follow through, so to speak.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I think a potentially better way is to figure out when the actual deadline for each feature is from a business perspective. Now, I know what you’re thinking, business deadlines are always unrealistic, with more features than any team could actually complete successfully. I hear you, and have experienced the same thing, but this time will be different.
Lets pick the right deadlines.
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Whatever you think is the deadline, add six months. 
This space intentionally left blank.
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Julie Larson-Green, the former Windows executive who most recently led Microsoft hardware development as the top executive in the company’s Devices and Studios Group, is moving to a new role in the company’s Applications and Services Group. Elop couldn't get the CEO job, but at least he got some work
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I read the email. What a pile of poo. She probably had a team of advisers telling her what "in" words she should use. There are definitely some stick-your-finger-down-your-throat phrases in it.
Yes, Julie, I'm so glad to read you are walking side-by-side in time with us all. To the tune of Lambeth Walk perhaps?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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In conversation with Glenn Beck, Google's executive chairman explains that humans can still occasionally be useful -- for now. But we're really working on it
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If you ever have any trepidations about Google, just listen to Schmidt talk for about... 11 seconds. It should put any doubt to rest as to whether or not they are a positively insidious organization.
No thanks.
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The high-speed impact of a wayward space rock on the surface of the moon last year triggered the brightest lunar explosion ever seen, scientists say. "Missed me by *that* much"
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The ubiquitous GIF, a 27-year-old image format that has grown into an Internet artform, is becoming obsolete. Wow. So graphic. Much important work.
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We must expect even more animated spam on web sites. I hope my browser's setting image.animation_mode=none will still be valid with the new crap.
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The imminent death of animated GIFs could only be considered a good thing; I was really hoping it would be vine that swung the headsmans axe. Simply because when someone shares a gif link it's impossible to know if the other end is just a badly saved picture due to operator stupidity or 2 or 5 seconds of video as crappy as it is inevitably inane. A URL with vine.com OTOH is guaranteed to be the latter and thus safe to ignore. An HTML5 alternative otoh could be hiding in any other innocuous seeming link.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quote: ... short for "GIF Format Yoker."
So that's "Graphics Interchange Format Format Yoker", then. 
Yet another case of RAS Syndrome[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I see it less as a death and more as evolution. Same concept, just easier on the eyes.
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