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I went thru that like 8 years ago when after launching a great first unibody MBP, Apple stopped producing pro equipment altogether (a pro sticker doesn't means something is really pro). It took some courage to get back to using effectively other platforms, but it's been easier than I thought.

If I would be about to make that choice now, I can tell you that seeing what Apple does, I wouldn't be worried. I would be terrified.

There's a well known phenomena called "vendor lock-in". Consider a consequence of teaming up with someone you don't trust. Yeah, nothing good is going to happen because of that...

Linux is great this days. Even Windows is OK-ish. Apple was a big deal in the era of Windows XP. In those days it was a huge difference. Now they IMO have nothing to offer to a tech savvy customer. There's so many reasonable options out there that only a person enslaved by Apple ecosystem for years can think that there's going to be an issue with going with anything else than Apple. Yes, I was that person too. The truth is that Apple has nothing to offer except of shiny overpriced hardware and a fairy tale about user's superiority because of "think different". Nowadays I don't even care about what Apple does. The world is a huge place and too beautiful to look at it thru the lenses of Apple's gay-ish UI ;P Not that I have anything against gays, but how am I supposed to think seriously about a company that produces its widgets for the sake of making non-tech-savvy people satisfied? Go to an Apple store and for 1 hour observe who buys their products. That was an epiphany for me when I had doubts! Clearly not (usually) people who know what they are doing...

Writing this on a Lenovo Legion Y530, a great machine 50% of the price of a new MBP. Booting Linux and Windows. I have no artificial limits enforced on me by anyone. I'm happy.

Nothing of the above is going to work for an iOS developer, etc. Those people have no choice. Ups. Who the hell puts himself in an "I have no choice" situation willingly?