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Best and Worst Things about Apple

OK, so if you haven't seen it, check out Silicon.com's 10 Best Things about Apple and their 10 Worst Things about Apple. What I found particularly interesting about this is that (for the most part), these points exactly correlated with my own assessment as a Mac-owner.

One minor point that I would make is to point out that "security" should probably be represented somewhere on both lists. In my opinion, it should be on the best list because of the fact that Apple does have a track record of reduced malware (and you can't argue with success) but also on the worst list for a few reasons:

- It takes them longer to publish security fixes than any other OS vendor
- The disingenuous marketing (i.e. the Vista "shades" commercial)
- Encouraging users to not take security seriously on OS X

Anyway, I found it interesting that security wasn't represented on either list - especially since there's so much buzz about it in the press (and in the marketing) nowadays...