At the D9 conference today, Google executive chairmanEric Schmidtbacked Apple in the Mac versus PC debate.
“You could use a Mac instead of a PC,” said Schmidt. He said viruses are far less likely to affect Mac users.
Schmidt backed the Mac after giving advice about security with Google services. That includes usingGoogle Chromeover other browsers and activating two-factor authentication in Gmail.
Schmidt did mention that he was a former board member at Apple, so one might want to take his advice with a grain of salt — though it’s hard to argue with the facts.
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Even withrecent malware problemsplaguing Mac OS X, it still comes out far ahead of Windows machines in terms of computers compromised and viruses contracted.
Schmidt hasrecently gone on the recordto say that Facebook and Apple aren’t major competitors for Google, and that Microsoft is their main concern. But at today’s conference, he said thatMicrosoft wasn’t doing enough to revolutionize consumer platformsto be a key player.
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