This whole Apple/windows/linux/unix thing has been going on forever. I spent years in a variety of computer support positions and helping people with computers. On a personal level I have wanted to like Apple, but hate their OS. It does not mean it is a terrible OS or system, just that it is not for me. A computer is a tool. the OS is an interface. People are different, and because of this different OS makes perfect sense. I have seen people do great things with Apple. I have also had my car call the police on me because i connected my Iphone to it with bluetooth. I have had some great windows computers, and I have seen machines that I am amazed people don't toss out the window in frustration.
The biggest problems I have with Apple are more to do with their company rather than their product for the longest time. Apple screwed itself in the beginning with proprietary systems and the attempt to control everything on it's machines. Intel knew to srive competition even though it's chips were substandard at the time. They excelled because the competition drove their chip making to it's highest end, and dragged AMD up there with them while Apple really languished relying on their chips inherent hierarchy to drag them through. Unix went back end and kept it's place in an elite structure while windows sought to put their OS, and intels processors on every workdesk and in every home. It was clear for a long time windows actually let itself be pirated for that purpose. Windows standardized the OS interface for a while through it's vision. That was a smart thing to do, and like all smart things they eventually lost their edge.
Apple finally got a place where people were looking for brand names. Your phone is not just a tool, it is an accessory now, and that Apple logo sells it. Phones and pads were what Apple built it's image first company around. they do not sell machines, they sell an image, and you do not want your image under your desk where no one can see it. You want it in your hand where everyone can know you have it.
In the end all of these arguments over which OS is best are pointless. It is what you work best with. I learned a long time ago that a comfortable tool that you can feel at one with and operate with ease is the best thing. Some people will buy image, some people will buy brands, but the reality is these OS have a feel to them, and that is what makes you comfortable and makes you the best. I think Mac Oss' suck. It is because i find them frustrating and cumbersome with some really odd ways of doing things. It took me 2 days to learn android, and it took me two days to be a raving lunatic and want to jam a free iphone up the ass of the verizon person who sold it to me. That is not everyone's experience, but it was mine.
Linux, Mac, and windows are all just interfaces. Yes, they can all work well, and yes they all have their vulnerabilities. If you are of the group who thinks Mac and Unix are unhackable you are a moron. Feel glad you have a choice and do not have to rely on that OS you hate, and quit trying to tell which OS is better. look at windows. they dominated for years and screwed up by missing the pad and phone market and now they are trying to play catchup just like Apple was many years back when they did not capitalize on cheap computers in every office and every home because they had a brand. You are not going to use your computer's full extent anyway unless you are doing a business or some huge multimedia crap. if you have gotten to that point you are probably looking for a system that doesn't come from best buy anymore.
