[nikdaheratik]

I think Apple just has a different view of who is important to it as far as customers go. For them it's always been about graphics/media first, education second, and everyone else is an afterthought. The OSX acquisition brought in a number of people who care about developers, but the further the OS gets from that, the closer it gets to their roots.

The only major change recently being their desire to integrate as much of their work with iOS into OSX as they can. Which is helpful to their bottom line.

As far as Windows vs. OSX. I've had to switch to Windows for work and I still get very frustrated with it at times. As long as I can stick to my core tools, which is text editor + shell + Firefox, I'm fine. But it's a PITA to even make simple changes to settings as they bury it behind all kinds of stupid menus. And IE is still garbage, though it's less on fire than it was. And my stupid laptop will still spin up and slow the entire system down at random times of day just to run whatever flavor of malware scanner, auto updater, or copy protection scanner it feels is suddenly more important than the work of the actual user.

And then there's Office itself, which is garbage as well, as far as I'm concerned, but is pretty much the only reason why Windows exists as a platform. So I like Macs because they mostly have everything I need and stay out of my way. And also because of BBEdit which is still the best. Windows works okay, and is still better for gaming in terms of Price vs. availability, which is why I'm actually considering purchasing one at all.