[Campion]

As long as everything in your “ecosystem” is Apple, I’m sure you’re fine. Just don’t try to make Apple “play nicely with others”. It’s a closed, proprietary architecture.

[Crusher138]

As long as everything in your “ecosystem” is Apple, I’m sure you’re fine. Just don’t try to make Apple “play nicely with others”. It’s a closed, proprietary architecture.

Uh...no.

I have to work in a mixed shop. We have mostly Macs and a few Windows boxes to run certain proprietary devices.

All of our devices share the same printers, USB drives, we all log onto the Mac Server, in fact I can't think of the last time we had an incompatibility.

The App Store does effectively "close out" most crapware from being installed on your computer. It is very rare that I have an issue with a program I downloaded from the App Store. If you are adventurous (and possibly stupid) you can still download and install "outside" software, but I wouldn't recommend it.

In fact you could say that Macs are more compatible than Windows machines. I can run Windows easily on my Mac, but I can't (and really wouldn't want to) run OSX on a Windows box.

[Swordmaker]

As long as everything in your “ecosystem” is Apple, I’m sure you’re fine. Just don’t try to make Apple “play nicely with others”. It’s a closed, proprietary architecture.

Apple works fine with third party peripherals such as printers, scanners, etc. In fact they configure far easier and quicker on an Apple than on a PC.