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From a support perspective, one could say that people who use Mac’s are simpler and need more cushions of protections against things like porn sites and the like. That’s a software topic, not a hardware one.

You really want to go there? I suggest you don't. Macs are more sophisticated and capable of more than Windows machines. . . considering Macs can run easily run every variety of Windows in virtual machines, often several versions simultaneously.

Protections? I am one step away from the Terminal on a Mac where I have the full power of a UNIX™ computer. Where are those "protections" you have absolutely no knowledge about?

And you think that "Mac users are “inexperienced users”? Perhaps like the users who find that Macs are the best for technical use?? Like these Mac users?

This image shows Curiosity's Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) "war room" and its staff. On the night of
Aug. 5, 2012 PDT (early morning Aug. 6 EDT), 34 engineers who designed the Curiosity mission, gathered
in this room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to support the landing with their personal computers.

Curiosity Mars Lander Control Room. . . also with their personal Mac computers. . . plus a couple of Windows laptops.

And, no, Up Yours, they do not "need to install Windows" onto their systems. Those who do, find they don't use them. In fact, another Freeper who saw these photos claimed they were running Windows but had to eat his words when I posted a close up showing they were running OS X. I run SEVEN different operating systems on my big Mac system just so I can support my clients, not because I need anything they offer that I cannot do on my Mac.

From a hardware perspective many of the Mac systems have components built literally in the same Chinese and Korean factories side-by-side. Perhaps the “lack of failures” from hardware is due the fact that Windows machines outnumber Mac systems 10 to 1.

There you go with the ignorant opinion of "off-the-shelf" claims I just shot down above with facts.

Those are still your opinions and you’re entitled to them.

The fact is Mac’s are still trailing Windows by a factor of 1 to 10 in the U.S. As of 2015, Mac’s only comprise 6% of the global market share. And they’ve been 6% or less since as long as I can remember. And desktop apps for Apple trail by millions and millions. Millions and millions.

Maybe when their market global share hits oh say 35% and compare with Windows to compete, we’ll see just how “wonderful” the platform is since there will be enough of them out there for your “facts” to “match” general consensus.