I run a computer repair shop. I hear all the time people complaining about windows. Believe me apple has their share of issues too. Repair parts are a ripoff. I had to put a logic board in a macbook pro. The board cost me $750 out of my pocket. And that was for a refurb. Pure freaking ripoff. They hold up no better than a higher quality windows machine. And its not just motherboards. You pay for the name. I see more than my share of mac kernel panics( their version of the windows blue screen of death) the mac spinning beach ball, freezes, lockups etc. So don't be fooled into a false security with a mac they do have issues.
Another sleazy tactic of apple. The ipads, iphones ipods ( and macs, although their lifespan is a bit longer) become obsolete after 3 to 4years. With each ios update your device is getting put to the grave that much earlier. They force the app developers to not support the older hardware. Most of these apps will run fine on older hardware but this is how apple keeps you pumping money into their greedy fists. Keep you buying newer products. I see some really older windows machines running newer software. Slowly but it does work. It should be the consumers choice if they want to install a newer app or software on older hardware.
Another thing i always hear, well macs dont get a virus. Well they do get infected and thats already proven. Microsoft windows has 98% of the operating system market worldwide. So if you are a malware, virus coder i know which one im going after. Theres not enough macs being used to justify the time wasted to write a virus and receive a return investment. Steve jobs knew it was unwise to promote a mac as not being able to be be infected thats why he never would say it publicly. He knew it would only be a matter of time.
Im not a huge fan of windows 8. The metro touch screen is great on a tablet. On a desktop the lack of a start menu was just plain stupid on Microsoft's part. Fortunately you can bring the start menu back with a $5 program. Once installed it feels just like windows 7 again. I would not use a win8 non touch lappy or desktop without it.
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