I’m Syrian from Damascus and I'd like to tell you some facts (Is Assad a Mac or a PC?). Syria is extremely calm except in some rural areas where armed people supported by Turkey, the US, France and your country are killing innocent security people and soldiers every day. Some 6,000 have been killed or injured over the past eight months.

Yes, there are some demonstrations but that’s no excuse to abuse our wonderful leader.

Omar

Can you imagine any half-decent company releasing a tablet but designing it without even a USB port, not to mention a card slot (Asus Transformer: iPad killer in disguise?)?

Well, the Apple iPad is one such machine. The Asus Transformer will hopefully kill it off as rotten design. The Asus has better battery life, offers two SD card slots, runs Flash and has a more grown-up OS rather than something designed around a phone.

John

Windows and BlackBerry apps are nowhere near threatening Apple or Android apps.

Apple still has a big lead over the rest of the field, and is growing faster than everyone else. RIM is shrinking. Windows is treading water and falling further behind.

With iPhone coming to Verizon, look for waning interest in Android. I have yet to see a real competitor to the iPad actually for sale and generating real interest.

Chark

If you actually took a look at the list of what Apple patched with 10.6.5, you would see that most of the patches were for the many open-source and third-party components of Mac OS X (Security could derail Apple’s attempt to woo corporates).

In fact, an enormous amount – almost half – were for the Flash plug-in that until recently Apple bundled with OS X. Can you see now why Apple has stopped bundling the Flash plug-in with new Macs and, like with Windows, now requires users to download it for themselves direct from Adobe’s web site?

Other patches were for open-source components such as Apache, Gzip, MySQL, OpenLDAP, OpenSSL, PHP, Python, X11 and so on.

I assume you will now report that enterprise users should not trust Linux for their servers
because all these open-source vulnerabilities were present in Linux as well?

Martin Hill

Apple tries to be proactive in fixing bugs in its software and the software it uses from other vendors (Security could derail Apple’s attempt to woo corporates).

As far as deploying the patch you mention, it’s a piece of cake and can be delivered when required using an on-site software update server – part of OS X Server.

As for figuring out which systems need to be patched, that’s easy too. Just about every Mac can use the same OS installation, unlike Windows PCs which require special drivers. The OS X updater knows what it is looking at and updates it properly.

Peter