[zeusk]

> I also like that they make their products available on other platforms. I know that if I switch back to MacOS my OneNote, word docs, and C# code can be brought over without issue. The same equivalents for macOS don’t provide any cross platform equivalents.

This is what essentially kept me off from adopting Apple's walled garden or Google's web only systems (except for Google Photos and YouTube). I've had devices from either of these firms but I always restrain myself from investing into their platforms because one day I'll find something better but they'll hold my data as a ransom. Google will let me "export" the data, but in that form it is almost useless to me.

I also game a lot, so no other platform comes even close and now Windows has shipping support for:

- Mixed Reality / VR

- Raytracing (not just a tech demo)

which no other platform at the moment does.

[bobbylarrybobby]

You’d be surprised how easily you can export pretty much all your Apple-app data using AppleScript on a Mac. There’s almost nothing inaccessible via apps’ APIs

[panpanna]

But can he run iMessage on Windows?

Sure, he might be able to export his data but what use is that??

[evo_9]

You can't, this is why I run Windows 10 in a VM.

I keep all my personal stuff like email, messaging, browsing on Mac where privacy is higher and easier to maintain.

I do all my dev on Windows for the most part, along with my corporate Outlook account (which I use in a tab in Chrome, not even installed on Win10), that's basically how I do things.

This also allows me to make snapshots of Win10 whenever I'm considering installing something that might f-up my machine (aka test out some alpha release of dotnet core etc).