I couldn't agree more. Perhaps time to divert some of the energy from "the next best thing" to lets make what we have the safest thing. I believe that security is truly a top reason people switch and that could all go away if apple develops a rep for being slow to fix known issues.
just my take on it
Clay
Whilst this is absolutely true, ' Security ' means different things to different people. So far, companies have defined what is bad and tried to keep that out of their systems. That is a loosing battle.
Today, people start defining what is good and let only that flow through their systems and that allows them to have control over what is happening.
I am sure OS vendors are well aware of the threats out there and the vulnerabilities in the code they use. Their approach might well be to define the good code and let only that run on the CPU instead of checking for bad things and prevent that. But that is a drastic change and requires a business case ( after all it's all based on economics and business models )
The game ( sic ) will get more difficult every year because unwary people on the internet are considered ' fair game ' for the bad guys, who are now organised into companies with a business model.
I am not worried too much if my computer would display the message ' you have been compromised ' ..... at least I would know, and a clean install and a restore from backup would solve my problem .... annoying but harmless.
If there is code running that you do not see, by the time you get suspicious, even your backups might be infected and then what.
Anyway .... as Bob Dylan once said ... " The times they are a changing "
Just my 2 cents