It's been a long time since I've commented here, but since I have personal experience...

I used to be a 1-pack-a-day smoker. Here in Minneapolis, they banned smoking pretty much everywhere except in private residences and sidewalks as long as you stayed away from doors. It became a bother to smoke, and it was a nudge for me to stop. And I stopped. And my life is better for it. Now, is it right that the government could stop me completely from doing something which only or mostly effects only me? Probably not. Is it a net-positive for the government to make it inconvenient to do things damaging to your health? I think you could make a solid argument either way. My personal opinion is that things like this are fine. Yeah, there's a slippery slope in there somewhere, but we live on that slope already - always have and always will.

I would have agreed with you 5 years ago. But I can't think of a single person I know who bought a Windows box for themselves in the last few years. Even my completely technolgoy-clueless family members (my parents, at least a half-dozen aunts/uncles, all my siblings) have all bought iMacs for their homes. These are the people who say "what's slashdot". I work in startup land, so all I ever see is MBPs and Airs. I've got to think the only market for Microsoft now is large enterprises. That won't last long, though, as the executive/decision makers realize how much their work Windows box is than their home Mac.

I don't think young people are fed up with Android and iPhone. I think most young people might say: "What's Nokia?". :)

If using an iPhone or Android felt anything like sex, we wouldn't be having this conversation. :)

I agree completely.

We had a production issue one day, and the team was spread all over the country at the time. We decided Wave would be perfect for collaboration. Signing up was easy enough, but every conversation got threaded in weird ways, we couldn't figure out how to tell what had been read or not. It was a total mess. After an hour or so we gave up and just used a chat room.

I'm not saying it wouldn't have worked for us, but we could not figure it out.

I have a 5 year old company. We run OSX. I work in an giant shared space with a bunch of other startups in varying states. It is so rare to see Windows around here that it's almost novel. I would bet it's at least 90% OSX, 5% Windows, and 5% some flavor of Linux around here. For home/personal computers, I'd say the percentages are about the same for people I know. That said, I have Parallels running Windows for the sole purpose of testing IE. I think that's fairly common. I have friends who work as programmers in companies of varying sizes and ages, and almost all of them use OSX at work. The sole exceptions are giant old companies (banking, manufacturing, etc). I think Windows must still have a stronghold in those types of companies because they still apparently have a pretty good market share. So, what's keeping people on Windows? I'd guess outdated corporate policies must account for most of it, at least from what I've witnessed.

Funny, my wife must have changed the clocks because they're all correct and I certainly didn't do it. You've got to love having someone who cares about certain things just 1% more than you do. :)

But I heard that almost everyone who is getting brain cancer now is a mobile phone user. How can that be?

Call me a fanboi if you must, but 2.5 years ago I replaced my Compaq POS laptop with a fully mac'd out (pun intended) MBP. Years later, I still love this thing as much as the day I bought it. As a workaholic programmer, this thing has improved my life more than anything I've ever bought.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

Or it could be because of a thousand other reasons, or more likely a combination of a lot of factors.

I know I'm being overly optimistic, but wouldn't it be nice if we could get an OSX version if IE9? I have to run XP in Parallels just to test in IE. Dropping Windows for good would be so nice. :)

I had a meeting with the owner of the printshop my company uses. He's a gadget guy, so we eventually started talking about all the cool stuff our phones can do now. He kept talking about how much more he liked "apps" than "programs". It took me a few minutes to realize that he understood "app" to mean the stuff he installs and runs on his phone, and "program" to mean the stuff the installs and runs on his computer. It was obvious from our conversation that these meanings were distinct in his mind and commonly used. It was new to me.

Works great in Chrome on OSX too.

That's it, I'm going to go unfan Microsoft in Facebook.