Originally Posted by raymor

Just posting my experience in a playful way. Is it trolling to present both the good and the bad? Is being a fanboy now required? Mac does some cool stuff. I grew up on Macs. I learned programming on an Apple IIe and soon Mac was ten years ahead of DOS. They really do put a lot of effort into doing the best, figuring out the best way. As far as my experience, their corporate philosophy seems the opposite of Burger King's "have it your way", Apple's is "we hand you the best way."

They know they found the best way, their app store is the best, their proprietary parts are the best, etc. and they expect you to do it their way because their way is the best way. Millions of people love what that produces, the fine integration. A perfect example is itunes and Apple devices - they make it very easy to buy music from them, then load it using their software onto their devices. Contrast that with all of the other media devices, where you buy from any site using any web browser and just copy-paste to drive D, the media device. One is a tightly integrated closed system that works very well. The other is an open, ala carte system. Some people much prefer the integrated all-Apple system, others strongly prefer treating music files like any other files and copy-pasting them onto any device any time.

I enjoyed the Mac server that's in the other room. Very elegantly put together. It was a very nice system, until it had a problem. Since it's locked down tight, neither I nor the guys at the Mactech store could do anything about diagnosing the problem, so now it's spare parts.

Do you see it differently?