But you don't know what you are talking about. We who have used Multiple platforms are in a far better position to make that judgment than are you, freedumb2003. I have worked with multiple computer platforms. . . I've made a good living running a business that does exactly that for years. People come to me for advice on what to use. I know both platforms intimately. It is obvious you don't.
I know the phone platforms. . . their plusses and minuses. . . and I know what people want and need. Most people do NOT want to tinker with customizing their phones. The fact is that there is only a percentage of the population, a noisy 4% according to studies, LIKES configuring their phones and tablets, tweaking and finding apps to make it work the way they like. The majority, the 96%, wants something that works intuitively like an appliance.
Apple's approach to its computers, its operating systems, and its mobile devices is to provide those appliances. . . and as such they do not pile on the "Bells and Whistles" of spec sheet latest gadgets, but those things they have perfected to work as best they can and work as smoothly as possible, integrated into an ecosystem with seamlessly with all of Apple's other equipment with as little set up as humanly possible. No tweaking, no geeky settings, intuitive, and usually without manuals to wade through.
However, underneath the surface of that seeming appliance computer, is an extremely powerful UNIX™ computer that actually will run rings around your Windows machines. For example, my main Mac OS X computer routinely runs SEVEN operating systems. UNIX™, OS X.10.3 Yosemite, WindowsXP, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and two versions of Linux. Out of curiosity, I have run all seven of these systems simultaneously, just to demonstrate that it could be done.
Yes, a Windows box can run Virtual Machines. . . but it doesn't do it well. . . nor can it do so many, and not in windows inside its normal OS, because you see, OS X is UNIX™ and is running on top of UNIX™ and so do the others. UNIX™ was built from the ground up to multiuser, multisession, multitasking. It is an industrial strength Operating System.
You anti-Apple people come into these threads and try to tells us how bad the hardware and OS and the company is, when we have the direct evidence of our own experience with ALL of those that tells us that you don't know anything at all what you are talking about except what you've heard from your echo chamber choir of other Apple haters. Add to that your tactic of telling us we are stupid and wasteful of our money for buying Apple products when we could buy something "almost as good" for less money.
What you fail to understand is that 90% of the Apple users have BOUGHT those "almost as good" pieces of junk before and put up with their "almost as good" operating systems, "almost as good" hardware, and "almost as good" customer service, and found it not good enough for what they were willing to spend their time and money doing.
They made a conscious choice to buy Apple and certainly are not idiots who cannot make such choices on their own. They absolutely don't need you coming in here and telling them how you, Freedumb2003, are not smart enough to make the better choice like they did, and then repeatedly littering up these threads proving your lack of smarts by smearing them and their well considered, experienced choices when THEY are much more knowledgeable than you on the subject. You are like a sixth grader lecturing College students on their own subjects. Do you see how foolish you are?
If you run true to form, you won't bother to read this. That's what Apple haters do. Hit and run.
So very well said, Swordmaker!
>>You anti-Apple people come into these threads and try to tells us how bad the hardware and OS and the company is<<
Tell me where I said it was “bad” in any of my posts.
I just said it was tinkering with already developed innovations of others. They are the best “catch up” company ever.
Those are the clothes of which the emperor has none.
And their marketing is par excellance — they have an army of fanboys that will buy any gadget stamped with apple.
And all apple HAS is bells and whistles.