> This just sound like the Intel Management Engine story waiting to happen again
Excuse me, implementation details matter. Outcomes matter. Apple has deployed 10x more devices with no known breach or defect.
Excuse me, implementation details matter. Outcomes matter. Apple has deployed 10x more devices with no known breach or defect.
Except for the many thousands that have been known, from every exploitable vulnerability that's allowed an iOS jailbreak to every security fix in every patch in the nearly two decades of OS X (and System 7/9/etc before that). These types of things are fairly complex pieces of software. It doesn't matter if the software is ultimately compiled to hardware circuitry or executed by a CPU -- bugs come from complexity, not from the medium.
I was assuming the parent was thinking about Macs vs. Intel processors. Was just pointing out that the comparison of scale is iOS devices vs. Intel processors.
There's no way there are 10x more iOS devices in circulation than Intel-based PCs
Annual PC shipments ( laptops + desktops ) are still above 250 million per year. No tablets haven't killed the market, they've killed growth.
Apple sells about 220 million iPhones per year. I don't know how many iPads; say half as many again?