@ragingloli I’m not trivializing UNIX at all. Like I said, it’s the bedrock of nearly all operating systems out there. I do think Apple does many things better. They have a 333 page document known as the HIG the human interface guidelines that meticulously works through the usability/user interaction issues that software designers will face. It is why many of Apple’s interfaces are so elegant (some of the skeumorphism is obnoxious admittedly, but it also makes things appear familiar, less scary and encourages interaction, while marrying the user’s mental model of the real life object to the software interface). I think one of the best examples is Automator. It allows someone with no coding experience to visually assemble very complicated scripts. The interface is discoverable, accessible and still powerful without overwhelming the user with thousands of small shortcut buttons in ribbons all over the screen. On other platforms you will see the Cockpit UI scheme all too often.
@ragingloli It’s funny that you’re using a source from 2011. If you look at the results from the 2012 competition you will find that OSX is much more secure (as I said it was above):
“At Pwn2Own, Chrome was successfully exploited for the first time. VUPEN declined to reveal how they escaped the sandbox, saying they would sell the information.[41] Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 was successfully exploited next.[42] Firefox was the third browser to be hacked using a zero day exploit.[43]”
”Safari on Mac OS X Lion was the only browser left standing at the conclusion of the zero day portion of pwn2own. Versions of Safari that were not fully patched and running on Mac OS X Snow Leopard were compromised during the CVE portion of pwn2own. It should be noted that significant improvements in the security mitigations within Mac OS X were introduced in Lion.” (emphasis added)