[Dead Corpse]

Most Apple users are reduced to checking email and playing Candy Crush.

Everything actually useful is done on almost anything else.

[WVKayaker]

Most Apple users are reduced to checking email and playing Candy Crush.

Everything actually useful is done on almost anything else.

Hahahahahaaa! I guess it's good to be so ignorant. Of course, it's really just envy!

Bought my first Macintosh in 1984. Used it to design houses, which I built and kept track of all the details, with a free Apple-provided spreadsheet.

Used MacWrite (also FREE) to write the contracts, prepare advertising, and write anything I wanted. My three year old daughter learned how to use the computer and learned alphabet, numbers, and typing skills.

The was no Word. Wordperfect was a third party for the DOS crowd. I never had to learn C> codes, as I used a mouse and easy-to-learn keyboard shortcuts.

Have owned Mac Computers ever since. They work.

I do play games on my Mac, but the number one most-used Windoze program is Solitaire! I now use my MacBook Pro, my iPad, and my iPhone for business and pleasure. I am now retired, but am President of a Private Foundation (NGO) operating in the Philippines with various projects, also set up a Pizza business for something to keep me and my fiance' busy making money. The various softwares are mostly Apple products which work. They just work!

[lefty-lie-spy]

Reduced to? WTF are you on? You are an old sycophant hack to say such stupid remarks about an operating system. That is sooooo 1988 of you.

[erod]

Most Apple users are reduced to checking email and playing Candy Crush.
Everything actually useful is done on almost anything else

I respectfully disagree, I use Macs in my profession because it works best for Adobe, doesn't get viruses, has a great OS and has never needed any major repairs. It's apples vs oranges imo, but I love my Mac because it helps me be productive.

[HamiltonJay]

While that may have been true at one time, MAC has come a LONG WAY, and its because MAC OSX is basically Linux with a nice GUI on top of it.

Last year I went to one of the biggest developer conferences in the world, and not one presenter, not a single one, had a windows machine, all were Mac, and at least 1/2 the audience was using macs.... (And no this wasn’t an apple conference and it had nothing to do with apple).... While I do agree Apple’s markup is insane on their products, there is no doubt that professional development is moving away from PCs. I can recall not all that long ago you might have seen a few macs at best at a serious developers conference that was not Apple Specific.... That’s definitely not the case anymore.

[avenir]

Love my desktop PC (Win 7) with 27” monitor. Also love my iPad.

If you’ve got $500 to spare (IMO the base model is sufficient if you have wifi at home), I don’t think you can beat the iPad Air and it’s Retina display. I hear Samsung is working on a super-res screen, but for now I think iPad wins big time.

I like OSX also, but find Apple computers too pricey for my pocketbook.

[The KG9 Kid]

"... Everything actually useful is done on almost anything else *but* Microsoft's latest versions of their desktop user OS, server OS, productivity suite, MSSQL database environment, Visual Studio version, SDKs, web-based .NET framework, or MSFT's hardware offerings such as their smartphone or dedicated Surface (and especially Surface RT) tablets because anything and everything related to Microsoft and Windows is stumbling along just fine on 7+ year old versions with zero reason to upgrade aside from MSFT's artificial terminations of support."

There. Fixed it for you.