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Macs are not the best choice in any situation.. They don’t run most applications and are on shoddy hardware.

In the 1980s (which you referred to), a Mac running Photoshop on a Mac II would run rings around a DOS box (no professional Windows until Windows NT, a decade later). Yes, it cost more, but the hardware was generally of very good quality and would usually outlast most name brand PC equivalents in usability if you started out with a high end machine (Mac II+, Mac IIcx, Mac IIci). There were some problems with overheating on Mac Plusses and with a bunch of Quantum hard drives, the first Mac external CD, and the Mac SE fans. I could come up with equivalent problems and poor design choices on most of the major PC brands.

For those who didn't want to monkey around with TSR DOS programs and memory work arounds over the 640K/1 MB limit, Macs were a LOT more straightforward to use.

In the mid-80s, the most cost-effective way to have a print shop was a Mac of any type running PageMaker hooked up to a LaserWriter. A PC hooked up to an HP LaserJet would be fine for term papers and bulk mailings, but not much else, without PostSCript. Once you added the bells and whistles (Postscript, memory managers, special software), you spent as much as the Mac, and you have a comparative kluge.

Apple charges a 30% tax on all app usage. It’s a death spiral for them on this. They’re going to end up with Macintosh 5% of userbase.

Apple's apps have fewer security issues than Google's Android apps, and 30% is no worse than Amazon and Audible and the entire book publishing industry have lived on for some time.

The iPad on release was several hundred dollars cheaper than analysts expected, and still dominates that sphere. The iPhone SE is not that expensive and has a solid chip.

Do you really want Google to have 90%+ of the SmartPhone market? (90% Google Android, 5% Apple, 5% Microsoft and others)?

You don't have to like the Apple products to admit that some people might prefer them without being stupid. That isn't the Free Republic way.