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Not for long. I think Jonathan Ive is about to screw the pooch over at Apple. IOS 7 looks like a cheap knockoff of the previous versions of IOS. And OS X always had a lot of excitement and buzz before. But now no one is talking about Mavericks. There's been zero excitement, and not a little bit of head scratching over Apple's desktop strategy. I'm still using Snow Leopard at home. Apple just isn't giving people a compelling reason to upgrade (and maybe that's why they're just giving Mavericks away now), and I think they're sowing doubts about the future of the Mac. More and more, the Mac seems like Apple's unwanted child, while the iPhone and iPad are the favored children.

I think Apple is preparing to abandon the Mac as we know it... desktop centric computing... and OS X as well. I think Apple is preparing to abandon Intel, and go to an all-ARM strategy as soon as they think their A series of chips are up to desktop strength. I think they'll eliminate much of their high end Mac line, and that the future "iMac" and "iBook" will basically just be ARM powered iPads with a keyboard and mount, and a built in folding keyboard attached to the unit. It makes a lot of sense to do this if you only see yourself as a consumer gadget company (as many within Apple now do), but it's going to leave a huge void in the ranks of dedicated professionals that rely on high end Apple computing products. Who will step into THAT void? That, is an interesting quesiton.

I agree. I’ve got Snow Leopard and 6 Macs, 6 Iphones, 1 Ipad at home..... and one HP POS that has tons of family photos that my wife refuses to change over to the Mac because she can’t figure out how to get the photos out of the peripheral drive she stored them on and for some reason the Mac doesn’t “see” them.

I’m not messing with Mavericks because everything I have works.