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by drieddust 2543 days ago
His specific question is just a diversion tactics. Parent comment was about Apple intentionally misleading gullible people for many years by claiming that MACs don't get virus. They didn't change until high profile attacks hit and it was no longer viable to make the claim.

Instead of commenting on this, he just moved the goal post to iOS never getting a Virus. What does iOS never getting a Virus has anything to do with Apple being dishonest?
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Razengan 2543 days ago
Another thing, in technical communities, "MAC" in capitals has the implicit distinction of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address

P.S. Look what just showed up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20383432

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jki275 2543 days ago
Do Macs get viruses? In general, they don't. Certainly people have a variety of opinions on why that is, but the fact remains. I think someone finally may have made one, which was why Apple dropped that particular point out of their ad campaign.

His specific question has an answer, and you chose to obfuscate instead of answering.

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Razengan 2542 days ago
You posted a link from 2012 [0] that you apparently didn't even read, saying that Apple claimed Macs didn't get viruses, whereas the link's headline is "Apple Drops 'We Don't Get Pc Viruses' Schtick."

You then went on to ignore that contradiction. Does that fall under "moving the goal post" too?

I also suspect you created a new account for the sole purpose of supporting yourself in this argument. [1]

[0] https://www.wired.com/2012/06/mac-viruses/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rtrr_eter

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