For every faithful follower who nods his head reading this sort of thing, there will be 10 or 100 outsiders who will say to themselves, no, not for me, Steve. It is in fact counterproductive for this reason.
What they are not is the best computer ever made for the vast majority of consumers, and its quite gross to hear people parroting this sort of thing over and over again. They are indeed the right choice for a rather small minority of people. Macs are fine if you like that sort of thing. Like most Cupertino ones, and like the Party Line about OSX being in some way open source, it is a wild distortion, but it also has cultish overtones which make it more unpleasant than most. Like many or most marketing slogans its a wild distortion of the facts. What we see emerging here is a marketing slogan originating in Cupertino for mindless recital by the faithful in puff pieces masquerading as reviews and articles. So an OS that forces them to get this hardware to run it simply cannot be the best for them. Because Apple hardware is not the best hardware ever shipped for the vast majority of consumers. But the best OS for most people, it ain’t as long as it involves them in a total hardware replacement to get it. It may be the best thing since sliced bread for everyone with suitable Apple hardware to run it on.
It’s by far the best operating system ever written for the vast majority of consumers
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