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No nudes, bloated apps, Android sucks and 497 other complaints about Apple to the FTC

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Re: Hoist

Of course, this is utter tripe. A Macbook is essentially a very restrictive PC. If you don't care about the restrictions, you might as well buy a Chromebook and get the enhanced security that offers over a MacBook.

LOL. You must have been paid by Google. There isn't a company in the world except Google itself for whom a Chromebook would rank as "secure".

First of all, tell me what "restrictions" you find on a MacBook. You can buy outside the App Store, you get support in any country in the world (and that includes hardware support) and about the only restriction in place is that applications that make it to the App Store get vetted. Which is not a bad idea compared to the Wild West of other platforms but (as indicated before) if you want to live on the wild side, you can, it's not like iOS.

Secondly, we have actively switched to MacBooks exactly because our research indicates them to be the easiest to both secure and KEEP secure without getting the way of usability. They also run a version of Unix that works well together with what we do on Linux, so I really can't see that being a restriction - it's more the reverse as it allows people to run both Open Source and commercial proprietary applications without the need to relearn another platform, and without any dependency on the biggest data collector on the planet after the NSA.

So no thanks, you can keep your Chromebook. If you feel that classifies you as a loser you don't need a laptop, you need help. For us laptops are simply business tools, to be bought on evaluation of the facts that pertain to our business, and that evaluation has pointed towards Apple for quite a few years now. For your use Chromebooks may be a better choice, but the only way security would point at a Chromebook would be in comparison to Windows.

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