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Yep, it's still definitely considered one of the most secure consumer platforms both in fundamentals and in the practice of the number of bugs it's had.

No security is perfect, a small handful of bugs over the last so-many years is about as good as any platform can hope for.

If you're a CIA agent or run a bitcoin exchange it might not be good enough for you, but for most people it's a pretty good set of options.



ChromeOS is more secure and far less expensive than MacOS, although as long as you keep your parents off of Windows you won't have to worry about ransomware.


OP is discussing iOS. MacOS is free. Google hardware is definitely less expensive than Apple’s though.


MacOS is free? Where can I download it? I need to setup a MacOS VM for development.


Are you doing this from a non-Mac environment? The App Store site has it. It seems I’m missing something...


Yes, I am in Debian GNU/Linux but if MacOS is free then I'd like to setup a VM to run Xcode in.


macOS is free? Link? Are you a troll or an idiot?




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