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The bad guys who create malware these days aren't hobbyists.? They are organized criminals.? The create malware to make money.? Creating malware for the macintosh is very difficult.? It takes many months and huge amounts of money to create effective malware.

So they aren't creating malware because they want to get back at "smug" Mac users.? They either see an opportunity to make money or they don't.

The thing is, Apple makes such an endeavor unprofitable by fairly quickly pushing out security updates to protect against new threats as they arise.? The Mac OS includes several layers of anti-malware protection.? In fact, the fact that Apple is so on top of this, combined with how hard and expensive it is to write malware for the Mac almost surely discourages malware-writing criminals from targeting the Macintosh. It is a waste of their time if Apple shuts their malware down before they can make much, if any, money off of their malware.? They may not even recoup their original investment to create the malware in the first place.

In 2011 when the Trojan "Mac Defender" appeared,? it is interesting to read about the lengths that Apple went to to protect us from it:

Mac Malware 'Explosion' Missing In Action